PEERLESS PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1918, Page 4

PEERLESS PICTURES.

OP MR. A HOUSE, TO-NIGHT.

“THE DAUGHTER OF THE

GODST”

At the Westland Opera House tonight the highly praised cinematographic spectacle, “ A Daughter of the Gods,” will undoubtedly draw a record house.

Considerable interest centres upon tiie appearance of Annette Kellermann, the noted Australian swimmer, as the heroine of the picture. This beautiful and magnificently mounted William Fox affoit is something that will be equally popular with young and old, with its story of true lovers, even when death could not divide, even though one perished by the other’s hand. Annette Kellermann, in the title role, gives a wonderfully realistic performance, and her aquatic feats, which occur naturally and smoothly in the sequence of the story, add not a little to its interest. It is a tale of love and ambition, and tlie pure radiance of the unselfish devotion, flavoured with the Orient, tinctured with a fatalistic course of events that bridges ages, and girt about, with mermaids, elves, gnomes,, and waterbabies that would convince the most seentieal as to the existence of these delightful heingq. And there is a bad witch, and her satellites; and a vast demoniac God of Destruction, who rains fiery terror upon the earth, but whoso moves the good fairy—other.wise the Queen of, Kindness —is able to counter most times. The storming of the Sultan’s city by the army of gnomes (miraculously turned into mighty men of valour, while Anita, the daughteriof the Gods, leads them) is a luridly spectacular sight. The lllusionary appearance of the good fairy and the' bad witch are woriderfully managed, later electing to disappear in the good old-fashioned way dear to those wliq have been readers of fairy tales—in a cloud of fire and brimstone, duly mounted on a broom-® stick. Many of the scenes are exceedingly impressive. One which maybe

ment|oned particularly is that of the destruction of the Sultan’s city by fire. Others are purely beautiful and fanciful and in that class may be placed .the land of the gnomes and el ves, and the seascape and waterfall pictures. ■ There ■ are thousands of actors, whose picturesque costuming lends an air of reality to the parts they are called upon to play. The end, is more than satisfactory, as the end of all good stories should be. The Prince and the Princess, after many tribulations and trials, meetm a cloud of radiance, and are taken away by the mei'maids to a most beautiful place, where they are living happily to-day. The Greymonth Peerless Orchestra will supply the music for the special production.

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