AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

Pollard’s programme to be screened at the Princess Theatre to-night contains two 3tar productions that are as unlike to each other as a bright sunny morning is to a cold, miserable winter’s day. The first star places before our minds the grim realities of “ War As It Really Is-” Captain Donald Thompson is employed by the French'" military authorities as the official photographer for the French Armies and he lias filmed a series of war pictures with the sole object of showing the truth about the war and visibly demonstrating the necessity of the untiring determination that is required by the Allied armies to crush the German monster. Captain Thompson went so close to the danger zone, to photograph the actual fighting, that his daring resulted in his being wounded seriously about the head and suffering the loss of one eye. Five hundred scenes of the greatest of wars will be shown. Among this vast number are scenes of “ The great Verdup offensive,” “ Germans surrendering before Verdun,” “ The Allied Air Fleet of 20,(00 aeroplanes,” “The Verdun Ramparts (80 feet thick) withstand- ; ing the enemy fire,” “The famous curtain fire,” and a most thrilling and authentic film of battles between I British airmen. The fearless Captain ascended some thousands of feet in the air, went close to a British and German birdman who were fighting for their lives, and took a film of one of the combats that will be screened to-night. The second star to be presented is a 3000 feet Keystone Triangle comedy “The Mystery of the Leaping .Fish ” featuring Douglas Fairbank as a “ D ” who, in a quaint manner, sets himself to unravel a mystery that required many laughs before the smiling “ Dong’ ’ scents a clue. -

WIcLEAN’S PICTURES. j Tlie Star attraction for Friday night is “Vanity” a powerful play by the Metro Company, featuring Emmy Wehlen. Phyllis (Emmy Welilen) is employed as a model at Martell’s an exclusive establishment for women’s apparel. She befriends a young wife who has been deserted by her husband, and, .find ing herself unable to help the wife as she would like, she tries to obtain it by gambling. The chief of detectives who has been watching the girl for some time lias Phyllis dismissed from Martell’s making it appear that she has stolen money, and she is placed in such a position that'she is obliged to j accep- the. chief detective’s offer to . help him with a case against a yonng j man whom he believes to he guilty of murder. Although the man has not committed the murder, Phyllis secures from him a damaging admission and lie is arrested. Tt is then that Phyllis discovers that she loves him. and she moves heaven and earth to establish his innocence. Mow she secures his freedom and wins back his respect and ffection is told in the concluding scenes of one of the most powerful and intensely dramatic photo dramas ever written. The supporting films in- i elude a Metro Travelogue a two-reel comedy entitled “The Mouse of terrible Scandal” featuring Billie Ritchie, the latest War Journal and chapter of “Peg , O’ The Ring.” |