AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES,

CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG

The beautiful Clara Kimball Young will be starred to-night biPollards at the Princess Theatre; as the foolish maiden in a clever picturisation by the Selznick Coy, entitled “The Foolish Virgin,” adapted from' Thomas Dixon’s famous novel. Life is built upon realities, not romance; this is the theme of “The Foolish Virgin,” Thomas Dixon’s famous novel that has been screened as Miss Clara Kimball Young’s second Selznick Pictures offering. The story deals with a young girl whose ideas of life are founded on the romantic works of'fiction which she is so fond of reading. She is deceived into marrying a man with criminal tendencies, who, possessed of a lust for money, becomes a burglar. Her efforts to redeem the man she loves lead to many intenselj’ dramatic situations, with a powerful climax. “ I won’t live with a thief,” come defiantly from the lips of the disillusioned and bitterly betrayed wife, and receives the reply, “ You took your chances. I took mine. For better, for worse.” “ The Foolish Virgin ” is too modest for his picture of the Madonna, but was willing to trust her youthful purity to a man that she had only known for one week.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

OPERA HOUSE, TUESDAY.

At the Opera House on Tuesday. Mr H. McLean’s all new programme will be/ headed by a beautiful Blue Bird photoplay, entitled “ The Flashlight,” featuring Dorothy Phillips. Jack Lane has gone to the mountains to experiment in photographing animals. His own invention, combined with a flashlight arrangement, sets off the camera when an animal steps upon a certain tvvig or moves the branch of a tree, automatically photographing the object within range. Lane has a cabin in the vicinity, but night 'overtakes him at some, distance from his shack. Fie applies for shelter to Porter Brixton, a recluse who refuses him. Lane •goes into the woods, sets his photographic outfit, and goes io sleep in his blankets.; He is awakened by the sound of his flashlight exploding. Coincidentally he hears the report of a rifle in the direction of Brixton’s cabin. When morning dawns, Lane takes his blankets and photographic outfit and goes to his cabin. There he developes the plate and finds the photograph of a girl, carrying a rifle snapped by his camera at the moment she is evidently in flight. Later he learns . that Porter Brixton has been murdered. Curiosity leads Lane to Brixton’s cabin, the sherrif arrests him when the tracks Lane -made in the mud, when he asked for shelter the night before, fit the shoes

Lane wears. Going overland with his prisoner the sherrif stops for a night in a mountaineer’s cabin. Lane bent upon escape, gets away. The supporting items are “ The Highway of Fate, a one-reel drama, “Mary Ann in Society,” an amusing Victor comedy, and the latest Journal.