AMUSEMENTS. POLLARD’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS. POLLARD’S PICTURES.

To-night at the Princess Theatre William Desmond will be starred in the Triangle detective drama “The Teed Bullet.’-’ The story is woven around the desperate efforts of a photo-play author to have his detective drama filmed : all the immense workings of Motion Picture Studios arc shown in detail, film performers arriving for their daily tasks and the directors and camera ini’ii on the sfage. An author invades the studio of Thomas luce and is kicked and buffeted for his pains until he falls asleep in a secluded spot. Here he dreams he sees the production of the drama lie has been trying to sell nam ely “The Iced Bullet.” The drama d(jyls with Richard Deoring a wealthy New Yorker who is spending a holiday with friends on the. mountain. His companions are his little daughter Evelyn and Jiis ward Donald Green. Green wishes to marry Evelyn, hub is forbidden by Deoring, his reason being that there is a strain of insanity in Green’s family. One night, while Green is away, Deoring is mysteriously shot. A New York crime specialist is engaged by Evelyn to solve the mystery that surrounds the crime. Lee—-the specialist —is puzzled as to. how Deering was shot, because there was no weapon in the room and both doors and windows were locked from' the inside when the slmt was fired. Finally he discovers an infernal machine in the wall-of the room arranged in such a manner that the freezing of a block of ice caused the tiring of a revolver that had been directed at Decring’s bed. The murderer after many efforts to evade conviction finally stands self-convicted before his accuser. “The Floating Trap” chapter. 14th of ’Gloria’s Romance’ shows Gloria (Billio .Burke) a captive aboard a lonely barge and at the mercy of the desperate man that murdered her lover.