AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PEERLESS PICTURES. TONIGHT—“THE SHOW DOWN.” We h ive secured a special Bluebird photo play for this evening atthe Princess Theatre entitled “The Show Down” which features such leading' stars a s Myrtle Oonzaleaz, George Hernandez and Arthur Hoyt in a title of primitive love and sacrifice. The photography is one of the best and the story is where the principal characters are ship wrecked in the Pacific Ocean and find shelter on an uninhabited island. The heroine is the daughter of a wealthy man, who is noted for his selfishness, and her chief admirer is a blase young man who finds life is a decided bore. Forced to shift Tor himself the j young chap develop unexpected cow- j age and resource and performs an im- 1 portnnt service for his country. The ! girl does her part also and her father turns out to he just the reverse of his : reputation. In fact fho 'real ehnno. ters of the entire party lire brought te the surface by the primitive lives they are compelled to load. A well selected cast brings out all the good points of the story. Mrytle Gonzaleaz as Lydia Benson, George Hernandez as h~r father and Arthur Hoyt as GcOT?;- Chc«toi'e are especially effective. j A side-splitting comedy entitle- 1 “On" j Devil Dan” gives a bilge support, j while the music will be of the best procurable. j

POLLARD’?? P'CTEJRES The Greater Vit graph's r> 1 end i«1 picttirisation of ITm ’*> 1u i Garland’s great novel. “The Captain of the Grey Horse Troon,” and “ The Intel--vent-ion of Tito.” the sth chapter nf ‘•The Iron Claw.” \v»U p/ovide <l,fc attraction by bollard’s Pictures in the'. Princes-! Theatre to-nmnow Thursday evening. “The Captain of .the Grev Horse Troon,” feat uns Antonio Moreno, an art’sr who ; s now eonsidere 1 the rival of Donglm Fairbanks in that particular line of bright-, breezy acting. The p’a.y is one of romance and contrast; the romance of a, young soldier who tried to do his dirty' by a. dying race and contrast in 'the scenes., of palatial luxury in 'Washington contrasted with the wonder in a great Indian reservation, the home'of a dying race. Little do we realise, when we read in history of the extinction of a race, the heartbreak, the c.Mintless tragedies, that mark the parsing of any of God’s creatures from the face of the earth. Too often, civilisation, in its march onward, has had as its forerunners a horde of self-seeking adventurers who have carried terror and crime before them, bringing j down upon the wild racap, not the i light of understanding, but the blade ! night of chaos and destruction. And j in the tragedies of the races, the pass- j

ing of the American Indian is one of the most'pitiful stories that worldhistory knows. . Against this background, Hamlin Garland, in' “ The Captain of the Grey Hoi’se Troop,” lias written a story so swift in its dramatic action, so tense with the conflict of the uncurbed passions of the frontier, that it - has thrilled countless thousands by the sheer boldness of its conception and virility. The picture of “ The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop ” tells a romantic love story between the patrician society lady (Edith Story) and the humble captain (Antonio Moreno). The plot is a line breezy one that is interspersed with magnetic touches of pathetic colour that makes the production different in every sense from most film stories. In the “ Interven-

tion of Tito,” the sth chapter of “ The Iron Claw,” the Laughing Mask, the mystic enemy of wrongdoers, saves from a horrible fate the persecuted Margery.