AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S PSCTUREB.

“The Spreading Dawn” with the recommendation 0 t being the sweetest story ever told, sung, or written—and featuring Jane Cowl as the star performer will he the principal attraction to be presented by Pollards’ at the Princess Theatre on Monday evening. Jane Cowl makes her debut, in the six-reel Goldwyn production, as a screen performer. Her reputation on the stage proper as an actress, is great, but this, her first "appearance on the screen has stamped her upon the minds of picture patrons as one of the greatest artists of the M ovie World. In the; whole | scale of human vicissitude and human emotion the most pathetic note is that sounded on. the strings of a woman’s broken heart. “Before I die I shall conquer this thing called love.” So spoke the elderly lady in the great and human Goldwyn picture-romance, “The Spreading Dawn.” But the moment of her death was the moment of love’s victory. After a long absence on active service the husband had no sooner arrived home than a message from “the other woman’ tore him post haste from the arms of his young wife, within half an hour he was a dying man, shot by the “other woman’s husband.” And yet . . . . well, the story is told in “The Spreading Dawn.”

OPERA HOUSE, THURSDAY

LEE TOY CHUNG

A great deal of interest has been taken in the appearance of Ee Toy Chung and his company, which takes place at the Opera House on Thursday evening. The company have had a most successful season throughout the Dominion, playing a season of 14 nights at the Town Hall,- Auckland ; 7 nights, Wellington ; 7 nights, Christchurch. Lee Toy Chung has had the honour of performing in all the principal theatres in the Commonwealth and the Dominion and is spoken of by the press as one of the best magicians that has toured New Zealand. He is supported by well-known artists, including Mr Percy Carr, a quaint singer of comic songs ; Mr Pert Roulston, musician; Eittle Georgie, the ventriloquist wonder; Mr R. J. Oswald, character actor and elocutionist, together with Professor D’Almaine, the acknowledged master of hypnotism, who will present his original entertainment and laughing boom. The papers allude to the professor’s performance as one huge scream.