AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

“ DADDY LONG LEGS.” Says a eon temporary cl the performance by flie company to open at the Princess Theatre on Thursday night—“ The acting was good throughout. Mr •). B. North, as .Jarvis Pendleton, was especially good, ! his work being restrainedtand artistic. ■ particularly in the third act. As the : irresponsible Judy, Miss Mabel Ear- j love was altogether delightful and i natural. She achieved a distinct j triumph in the first act where, ns the down-trodden little drudge of the orphanage, she rebels, and tolls the overbearing Visiting Committee and the outraged matron what slu- thinks of them all and tliei*- charity ” The success was continued right up to the last act, and it can safely be said that there was not a dull moment, in the play, each part being adequately handled. The cox plan is at Mrs Hjowne’s POLLARD*.® PICTURES, NEXT DISPLAY FRIDAY. { By advertisement Pollan!’- Pictures \ f notify the public that to enable the , “Daddy Long Legs” Company to i visit Hokitika tho> have given no their regular Thursday evening and I tliei-elme (heir next <: i.-piny will bo! on Fridav instead of Thursday, ibis will entail the sen cut ug of "The Saving of Dan O’llaia." the 1 1th chapter of “The Iron Claw. ’ in conjunction with “Sharks Nest. the 12th episode of “The Secret Kingdom.” On Friday evening Pollards will screen the six-act. powerful Mutual Ivan film, "The Girl Who Didn’t (hire,” a pirLurisution of the ( well known drama “ The Sex Lure.”

The story pictures the road which > must be followed by those who give way to caprice and idle fancy. The Girl Who Didn’t Caie” weaves into the plot a showing of modern labor conditions and the lives led by modern } money-makers. By means of the j lure of sex, a girl succeeds in be- ! gniling a husband who is tired of his | wife’s persistent melancholy at the disappearance of their boy. The girl is actuated by love of revenge, | but the son returns, and, learning all, j makes love to the girl, who becomes thoroughly infatuated, and finds the weapons of sex attraction she bad used turned against her.