AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

ENID BENNETT TO-NIGHT,

The Australian beauty actress Enid Bennett, who has caused such a stir in the film world by her ravishing' beauty and ber powerful acting 1 will be starred this evening at the Princess Theatre in the Triangle comedy tragedy drama “ The Little Brother.” At first, Enid Bennett portrays a slum-girl, deserted by her brothers. She dons trousers and becomes a 5 newsboy. AVatcli for ber fight with the boy on the other corner. She is taken up by a rich bachelor, who sends ber eventually to a school, where she is soon in tenible difficulties, ns she has to share a room with “another' boy. Open confession sends her to the girlA side of the .school, and she blossoms into a fashionably turned-put winsome graduate. The man she has learned to adore takes her into bis laboratory, and there she manages to save his life in an attack by burglars, utilising her newly got scientific knowledge in a clever way. Her beauty tempts the villainous overseer of the property, but all ends well “ Her Vow Fulfilled ” is the title of the 19tli chapter (the last but one of “Gloria’s Romance.” Gloria is confronted by the dying Gideon Trask and his daughter. Trask confesses to the murder and his reason for committing it and the last doubt of her lover’s perfidy vanishes from her mind.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

OPEia HOUSE—FRIDAY. *

T]j e star feature for to-morrow eveninf; is the romantic Metro wonder play 1 “The River of Romance,’’ recognised 8s the most popular photoplay that the two delightful .stars, Harold Lockwood am] May Allison, have yet made for the Metro Programme. It is, produced ‘ I,v the York Film Corporation and provides a -wealth of adventure for these truly adventurous stars, vtith V much bright clean humour as well. The Thousand Islands, in the St. Lawrence river, the beauty spot of North America, furnishes many glorious settings for this screen masterpiece. which is unrivalled in its scenic IJ'iauty. The swiftly-moving . story is full of "incidents tha-v absolutely demand the daring of tuo such fearless , players as Mr iLockw-ood and Miss I Allison. Flights by night in strange j waters are followed by narrow escapes J from drowning and sensational rescues. And through the fabric of beauty and < | adventure is woven the scarlet thread .j I of a powerful and delightful love story, j j The interesting serial, “Peg o’ the j ' Ring,” will be advanced a further j chapter. . ■