AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

■—■■■ -'•Mv—- —- ■— r McLEAN’S PICTURES.. “A ; CHILD OF THE WILD,” TO-NIGHT. The chief attraction at McLean’s Pictures this evening will be the Fox feature “ A Child of the Wild,” in which June Caprice,'the sweetest and prettiest screen actress in. filmrlom is seen at her very best.- This picture is pleasing for young folks. June Caprice is herself most charming, but little Jane Lee keeps - everybody in screams of laughter at her amusing ways and sayings. Parents are advised to bring the young people tonight and not miss this Fox feature.

PEERLESS PICTURES. “ THE GREATER LAW.” A special five-act Blue Bird photo play which features four great stars, Myrtle Gonzalez, George Hernandez, Gretchen Lederer, and ! Laurence Fenton, supported by a powerful caste, will head the all new , display to be presented at the Prifl- I cess Theatre on Wednesday night, i entitled “ The Greater Law.” in five 1 big acts. The press ot the centres 1 proclaim “ The Greater Law ” to be ’ the most powerful and greatest movie ever screened, as record business has been reported wherever the film has been screened. Myrtle Gonzalez, George Hernandez,Gretcliep Lederer, and Laurence Pentou. led the Reynolds Companj r through snow feet deep operating in the vicinity of California, with peaks ot the Sierres, clothed in frost and fiicked v with scattering fir trees and evergreens. The camera has caught some beautiful sights of a series ot exciting episodes, reflecting the strenuous life in an Alaskan mining camp. There are but few interiors and these are used to represent sensational events that transpire in a 1 combination dance hall saloon and hotel at a time when the' Klondyke seethed with the highest pitch of excitement in the first, days of the rush Jor gold. The supporting programme will include “Hutton of Headquarters,” drama, “Silly Sultan,” comic, and our Weekly Gazette, while the music* will be cf the usual high order.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. !

GRAUSTARK, THURSDAY

Never before has Francis X. Bushman been seen to such great advantage as in the big Ciem Mason super feature “ Graustark ” a marvellous picturisation of George Barr McCutcheon’s great novel. The splendid si»x-act feature will be presented next Thnrsday evening in the Princess Theatre, in conjunction with “The I Name and the Game,” the fourth I chapter of “The Iron Claw.” In } “ Graustark ” Francis X. Bushman I and Beverly Bayne are' associated, j with Edna Mayo and Bryant WashI burn. “ Graustark ” 'as a play abj sorbs all the salient beauties of such j works as “ Three Weeks” and “The ! Prisoner of Zenda.” The adventures of the wealthy young American globe trotter who while taking a midnight stroll around thePaiace at Eidelweiss the capital of Graustark, sees two mysterious figures and hears one say “ The guard will admit you ; go right through the Palace and cairv the Princess away. He follows and call ing for the Princess he finds that she is the gild whom he met in Paris under a non de plume. He is the means of saving her. This incident gives the motive y for the drama that picturises McCntcheon’s great word paintings of thrilling sensational incidents and desperate fights for the hand of the Princess. The picture is magnificently staged and will be supported by the 4th chapter of the splendid serial “The Iron Claw,” entitled “The Name and the Game.” Pollard’s orchestra from Greymonth will play the incidental music and overtures. j