AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

1 ■ «•»**•• POLLARD’S PICTURES.

11,. B. WARNER.— THURSDAY

On Thursday evening at the Princess Theatre the Triangle star drama, “The Beggar of Cawnpore," with H. B. Warner"-in the leading role and the third chapter of “Perilous Love,” of “Gloria’s - Romance,” with Billie Burke as Gloria will-be the star attractions in Pollard’s new picture programme. The matinee idol—H. B. Warner —as a dirty, ragged, opium-sodden wreck, dreaming his wretched life away in the slums of the Fast Indian City of Cawnpore. it’s a triumph of make-up and of acting such as-has seldom beer, displayed by any actor on tig. screen. The handsome youthful features _ of the famous creator of “Alias Jimmy Valentine” are disguised by a straggling heard his eyes arc lifeless, he is no longer n man, but, a decrepit, hopeless, lifeless thing, until the, moment when a face out of the past awakens him, a great need calls manhood into being, aHd he does what a. man should do! Remarkable settings and costumes of India add co the attractiveness of ‘iThe Beggar of Cawnpore,” one of Triangle’s muse notable releases.

Tn “Perilous Love,” the third chapter of “Glorias Romance,” Billie Burke, as Gloria is seep at a fashions me school where she is the terror of the schoolmistress’s life hv her pranks, and now mystery, perilous lov e and hate begin to appear.