AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PiCTUR&e. “THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES.’ To-night the Triangle' Rice big problem play “The Female of the Species” will feature the star siren of tire screen “Dorothy Dalton” in a brilliant pourraynl of “-The Female,” a beautiful and reckless sculptress noted for her ad-

vanced ideas. The writer, by his, story, advances the theory that the man is to be won away from the Siren by the little Homebody “on the ground that the one is merely infatuation the other is love. In love with the man before he married/the homely woman —tne sculptress determines by fair moans or foul to win the husband from the wife. In this she is unsuccessful, for the husband is a happy and devoted lover. Business calls the man away, and fato so ordains that at a wayside station the “man” and the “fopiale” are fellow passengers. That night far out in the desert there i s a collision. The female, escapes, hut the man is stricken. chance, classification makes them appear as man and wife. Recovering, the man really believes the j'Ymale to he his wife on account of less of • meinory,• and they being ■strangers in-a strange land the woman, does not fear detection, but chance takes a hand again, in_.tlie form of a friend who carries the news to the wife, who quickly appears upon the scene. iAn operation is performed,

and the little wife wills her husband hack again. Dorothy Dalton, as the sculptress, is splendidly supported by Howard Hickman as “The Man.“valid “Enid Mai-ky” as the “Homebody” wife. The, photography 1 is wonderful especially in the 1 notably luxurious toriors and wizard-like studio which is seen in the terrific train smash with its luridly splendid lighting effects. “The Shadow of Scandal,’’ the ninth chapter of “Gloria’s Romance,” shows “Gloria” (Billie Burke) heartbroken at the death of “Ferneau,” but with every resolve to trace his murderer.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

OPERA HOUSE FRIDAY The star feature on Friday evening will be the Metro five act drama “The -Wheel of the Law;”' featuring Emily’ Stevens and Frank Mills. It is a heartgripping romance dealing wtili the fallibility of circumstantial evidence. It tells, in what is probably'the most dramatic story yet produced on the Metro programme-, how a brilliant lawyer is about to climb to his ambition over the wreck of his wife’s happiness, when, in a moment of desperation, she de- , monstrate.s to him the fallacy of his theories by provnig him guilty of , a crime which has no existence. In addition the serial “Greed” will be screen ed in its 17tli epsode, when another of the great “graft” tricks will he exposed. Interesting war specials and a comedy complete a big programme.