POLLARD'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1917, Page 3

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT 1 (Particulars see first page). THURSDAY NIGHT’S PROGRAMME “THE CHATTEL” THURSDAY.

On next Thursday evening Pollards j will present at tho Princess Theatre, j the Greater Vita graph’s, clever and con- j vincing story of “The Chattel” will be screened with the dainty and most appealing English actress, Peggy Hyland, as tho Chattel. America’s greatest socnpty actor of to-day, E. H. Sothern, is featured.as tho successful business man who buys a beautiful bride ancl treats Iter as merely one of his possessions. “T must and will have the host, for I will pay any price and count the cost fair; but once the thing is mine it is mv own to do with as I please, and none shall interfere.” This is the rich Blake Waring's motto; but he finds the wiife has a remedy when he is told ‘The Chattel has come to buy her freedom,” and he finds for the first time in hi s life that a wife is not simply “the property of the husband to do with a.s he likes.” and further that he has failed to keep i the thing lie covets. Peggy Hyland is ( one of the daintiest, freshest- and most j appealing staYs in screenland, and in this j fine play she gives a big performance of the revolt of the modern woman from the idea that “Woman is a Man’s Plaything.” Tho star picture is supported by the Keystone Farce Comedy “Haystacks and Steeples.”