AMUSEMENTS.
POLLARD'S PICTURES.
BIG PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT
Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie 'Love and Billie Burke are the artists featured in to-niglvt's big programme to bo present-, ed by Pollard’s Pictures at the Princess Theatre. '-Douglas Fairbanks in “Reggie Mixes In” is at bis best. In this Triangle drama of the first grade lie is seen in the heartiest, wildest, fiercest and greatest light ever seen. Douglas Fairbanks lias been termed the “tornado of the screen,” and he certainly is a whirlwind in Gallagher’s saloon. Fresh from college, and engaged to a society girl, and out for a run in his car, ho finds a lost child and takes it, to its home in the Bowery. There lie meets a girl (Bessie Love) who is a dancer in’Gallagher’s saloon, but who is not on e of the usual typedressing in Bowery fashion, be takes the saloon; and it, is while looking after her that Reggie gots into all the trouble, and it is in .the final rescue of thegirl that “Reggie Mixes In,” and you see one of the best mixes up ever screened. In addition to “Reggie Mixes In,” the second chapter of Billie Burke in “Gloria’s Romance” will ho screened, entitled “Caught by the Somcnole.,’ Gloria’s capture by Indians, her captivity, the tight, and iter rescue by Doctor Boyce, forms the story of this, the second chapter of ;tlie Film novel.
MCLEAN’S PICTURES.
OPERA HOUSE—FRIDAY
The star feature on Friday evening to he presented by McLean’s Pictures is a great Metro drama, “The Weakness of Strength,” in which Edmund lireoso takes the part of Daniel Gaynor. Mr Breese plays the part of a man who is in lov© with power, and who barters for it the love and sympathy of' bis fellow creatures, even including that °f (the woman he loves. But lie finds out his mistake at. last, when he is sick and alone. How Dan Gaynor monopolises the log-market in his corner of itli e world, how he advances to a position ahead of a: great-sjiip-building firm, how the hour of his greatest success is his greatest peril, and how lie. is saved from himself by the unsought love of a little child, form the leading motives of this heai’tslirrlng drama. The- great serial “Greed” will be advanced a further period and there will bo a full supporting programme of war specials \and comedies. \
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1917, Page 1
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