AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

JOHN FULLER, AND SONS

“ HYPOCRITES ” TO-NIGHT

“ To the pure all things are pure — except hypocrisy—the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.” Milton. At the Princess Theatre tonight (Tuesday), John Fuller and Sons present the wonderfully beautiful Margaret Edwards, symbolising “ The Naked Truth.” In the marvellous portrayal of “ The Hypocrite,” Lois Weber’s strikingly beautiful play tells the story of a monk who carved in the secrecy of his cell a statue of wonderful beauty, in the nude, which he called “ Truth.” An ignorant-populace mocked the statue when it was unveiled, shattered it and killed the monk for what was to them the crime of immodesty. Thus is truth mocked and decried all over the world. From the fragments of this masterpiece then arises the spirit of "■ Truth,” who goes out into the world and holds up the mirror to society, politics, religion and the home. Margaret Edwards, in the role of “ Truth ” treats her delicate pose with a chasteness and refinement that places the production beyond the criticism of those whose baser instincts can see nothing but immodesty in the undraped figure. An interesting variety of supporting items complete the programme. This big star feature will be supported by a first class series of pictures, and will be screened to the original music. On Wednesday evening the big circus play, “ The Circus of Death,” a six-part story of love, hatred and revenge that teems with startling feats of daring by Madame Evelyn, the charming artist who was the wonderful heroine in “ The Jockey of Death,” The prices for Tuesday and Wednesday will be dress circle 2/ and stalls 1/, with reserved circle seats at Mrs Browne’s.

PEERLESS PICTURES. TO-NIGHT.—MARY PICfvFOItD.’ We have secured at big expense the second of Mary Bickford’s great artcraft super features, ‘‘The Pride of the Clan” in eight reels and will be screen-

ed by the Peerless Pictures at the Opera House (tins') 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-hound 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 bell on the headland tolls its message of a ship in distress, that jve first see IviMean. The sound'deepens—it is the sledge-

hammer ring, which betokens that the chief of the clan is in danger. In sight of the stricken people' on the shore we see the chief tail’s schooner wrecked upon a jagged little island. Marget Mac Tavish must, by the customs of tlio clan, take her father’s position as head of the elan, and she rises nobly to the occasion, wielding the MacTnvish whip when necessary in as determined a manlier ns did her father. After the first bitter grief at her father’s dentil. Marget regains her old-time vivacity, and when .Jamie Campbell, her shy hilt 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 be of the usual high standard.