AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. DOROTHY DALTON, TONIGHT. The star feature in to-night’s programme at the Princess Theatre will be “The Dark Road” a big Triangle picture that stars Dorothy Dalton as a siren who believes in the depths of her evil froward heart that she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra, in the luxurious, almost barbaric splendour of her apartments, she burns incense to the beautiful painting of Cleopatra, and when the knife, thrown by .the hand of her half-crazed husband, pierces the face of that sorceress Queen’s image, the modern siren falls dead. The story tells of how Oleo Murison, with the soul of a siren and the unscrupulous ambition of an adventuress, delights in luring men to destruction with her wizard beauty. Her husband is a British Army officer, who, alas! trusts her. He leaves for the front, and her wilful, evil spirit asserts itself. Her first victim is the young cousin of her husband. And then she meets her master, and for him betrays her country, her husband, and herself. The settings of this play surpass in beauty, massiveness, and richness any ever screened. THURSDAY—“ THE LOTTERY MAN.” On Thursday evening next Pollards will screen the big Broadway success “The Lottery Man,” the star feature in the all new programme.

JOHN .FULLER AND SONS. “THE HYPOCRITES.” On Tuesday (to-morrow) evening at the Princess Theatre John Fuller and Sons commence a two night picture season during which two big star feature pictures will be presented. Tuesday evening “ The Hypocrites” a chaste and beautifully depicted allegory presented with simple and delicate refinement of pose of Lois Weber’s startlingly beautiful moral theme “ The Naked Truth,” will be artistically depicted in “The Hypocrites,” at the Princess Theatre, Hoitika, on Tuesday evening under the management of John Fuller and Sons. Beautiful Margaret Edwards symbolises “Truth in the picture that has startled the whole world. “Hypocrites ” is a wonderfully vivid por'trayal that tells the naked truth about society, politics, religion and marriage, ft is a sermon from the screen and a powerful entertainment combined. It is the most bitterly opposed and widely discussed picture that ever showed up the shame that stalk among the highways of life to-day. To the pure all things are pure. “ Hypocrites ” has nothing to offer lor the entertainment of debased minds ; it is simply the naked truth.

WEDNESDAY KYENING. “The Circus of Death ’’ the most wouderiully thrilling picture play ever brought to the country will be screened. ‘ ,v The Circus of Death ” is a sequel to “ The Jockey of Death” and is a story of love, hatred and revenge that teems with hair raising situations and unusual and spectacular happenings. It is a circus —a pantomime and a superb drama combined in one picture. The prices for admission will be dress circle 2s, stalls is, and seats may be reserved at Mrs Browne's.

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second ol' Mary Pickford’s great- artcraft super features, “The Pride of the Clan” in eight reels and will be screened by the Peerless Pictures at the Opera House on Tuesday evening. It is a picture that will entertain, educate and surprise and is positively the greatest picture ever screened. ..The lonely island of Killan, off the coast of Scotland, lias been chosen as the scene of the story of “The Pride of the Clan.” The rock-bound shore lias brought many a ship to a shattered end. It is in the height of a gale against which man can scarcely stand when the warning Hell on the' headland tolls its message of a ship in distress, that- we first see Killea 11. The sound deepens—it is the sledgehammer ring, which betokens that the chief of the chin is in danger. In sightof the stricken people on the shore we see the cliiofLfii’.s schooner wrecked upon a jagged little island. Marget .Mac ’lavish must, by the customs of the clan, take her father’s position as head of the clan, and she rises nobly to the occasion, wielding the MacTavish whip when necessary in as determined a manner as did her father. After the first bitter grief at her father’s death. Marget regains her old-time vivacity, and when Jamie Campbell, her shy hut- ardent lover, atempts to propose to her Marget helps him so far that the momentous question is almost a superfluity But at the height of her happiness a. strange yacht anchors in the harbour and her dreams for the future are shattered The' supports will include comedies Travelogues and Gazette and will he of the usual high standard.