AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES,

GREAT RUSSIAN PICTURE TO-NIGHT. All the splendour of the Russian ballet season is a leading feature iu I the powerful world film drama, The Dancer’s Peril.” to be screened by Pollards at the Princess Theatre to-night. Gorgeous and extravagant scenes showing the Russian Imperial ballet, led by Alexix Kosloff the famous dancer, form a thrilling relief to the relentless exposure of the corruption and oppression ol the late Russian Imperial Court. Alice Brady in the leading role of Vesta, the leading ballet girl, is seen in one of the very best of her many successful. performances. Her dancing in ' conjunction with Kosloff is a special feature of the drama. “ My mother, to save my honour, killed him,” is the cry of Alice Brady in the scene of terrible intensity when she clears her mother of the horrible crime ol murder. During a sudden darkness on the stage Pasloff abducts Vesta and locks her up in an upper room. During the revelr\ r Vesta’s mother hears a Half smothered cr.y and guided bj' it. comes to the door behind which Vesta is a captive. She stays until the last guest has departed and in one of the most powerful scenes of the drama kills the man who has attempted to kill her daughter’s honor. The photography of the play is wonderful and overflowing with the richest oi settings, and as stated before, the stage scenes of the Russian ballet are particularl3 r line. The amusing and clever Keystone comedy “The Nick of the' Baby ” will be the humorous support of the world film star drama.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES. “The Mortal Sin” is the top liner at McLean's picture display on Friday night. The story of the play is gripping in its interest. George Anderson a struggling young author, is working desperately on a, novely he expects to ibe a masterpiece. It is called “The Mortal Sin.” The story deals with a wife’s sacrifice of her honour in ox-dor to help her invalid husband. Anderson develops tuberculosis. Ho goes West. He needs money. , And then his brain story becomes one in .real life. Tic returns to find his wife in the home of a wealthy man. In the hook he wrote, Anderson had his hero forgive the wife. But in his own life he overcome by rage and jealousy. He kills her. That, however, does not end the play, which has a startling and pleasing climax. This is one of the mosi powerful productions in which .Miss Dana ever has appeared.