AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

PEERLESS PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT: GRAND BENEFIT

FOR SCHOOL.

To-night (Wednesday) at the Princess Theatre, a monster benefit will be tendered bv Mr. W. J. Pritchard for the District High School building fund. The occasion will be' made memorable by the very line programme which is to be screened. The splendid Mutual super-feature entitled “The Pearl of Paradise” which features beautiful Margarita Fischer in six big nc;;s. Yulita is known to the inhabitants of one of the South Sea Islands as __ “The Pearl of Paradise.” Her father, Gomez, a Spanish fugitive from justice has reared her in ignorance of the outer world. Dekkan, the captain of _ a Dutch schooner, and* the only white man" the girl has ever seen, is infatuated with her. .John Dellow and his fiancee on a yachting cruise are forced to jump from the yacht, and the next morning Dellow is found on tlio beach by Yulita. Gomez orders John to be shot, but Yulita saves him, and Gomez tells Dellow. of how years before lie married an American girl, after accidentally killing her husband and another man. They fled to the Islands, and there the mother died shortly after Yulita was born. Later John real ises his love for the girl, but also remembers'that she is a child. Dekkan comes to the island and engages in a fight for Yulia. Denise, Bellow’s fiancee. is also saved and found by John who takes her with him and leaves Yulita alone on the island. He then sees Yulita start out in a boat after them. To publish the story fully would spoil the picture for those who would rather follow it as it unfolds on tho screen.

Tlu* programme will’ include other pictures of interest and best of all will be supplemented by the full Peerless Orchestra which is a happy musical combination and will be responsible for an attractive entertainment.

The special object of the, benefit , is one that will commend itself to all, and an overflowing attendance may bo looked for.