AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

iILARY PICKFORD MONDAY

On Monday evening at the Princess Theatre that charming little actress Mary Pickford will he starred in Frolimans Famous Players big five act drama of tho Alaskan Gold Fields “Little Pal as “Little Pal” the half-breed Indian girl “Mary Pickford” scores another great success and reveals another aspect of the astounding versatility. The play is a busy one as the plot shows. Black Brand, the camp bully, is in love with Little Pal, the half-breed daughter of Sid Gerue, tho drunken and dissolute proprietor of an Alaskan saloon and gambling den, but she will have nothing to do with him. In a gamo of roulette tho bully breaks tho bank, and then stakes all his winnings against the saloon and the possession of Little Pal. Ho wins, and Gerue, after bocoming gloriously drunk, shoots himself. “Little Pal,” resolved to have nothing to do with tho bully, runs away, and is rescued from freezing by John Grandon. an Easterner, who has come North to work a claim left him by hia dead brother. “little Pal” cooka for him and keeps hia cabin dean, and at the same time falls in love with him. Grandon gets the fever, and his wife is sent for. Tho camp doctor says he will die if he is kept in the Northern latitude, and “Little Pal.” reaching the pinnacle of her love and self-sacri-fice, robs the miners in,order to obtain the necessary money to send Grandon and his wife back East The miners, in an attempt to discover the robber, accidentally shoot and kill Black Brand. Tho picturo closes with the Indian girl standing behind a tree watching the departing Grandon and his young 1 i beautiful wife.