AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES. GREAT PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. “The Pride of New York,” a William Fox super feature, starring the athletic actor-thunderbolt, George Walsh, will bo the big attraction at McLean’s Pictures at the Opera House tonight. This picture drew crowded houses at Auckland, Wellington and

Christchurch. It is not strange that motion picture followers have liked and applauded this photoplay. It is one that has a strong appeal to both rich and poor. It should make the fathers and mothers of poor industrious boys happy and should make the parents of rich, idle young thoughtful of how they have cared for and guided their offspring. While George in the play is achieving success as an ironworker, the rich man’s son is just spending Dad’s money in the night life of New York. This idler loves a beautiful girl whose father is also wealthy. Conventions cause her to think that all rich men must sow wild oats, but when the call comes for the army, she sees George, smiling and industrious, and the spendthrift both in similar uniforms. Her judgment is that George is the better man. Throughout the play George does some of the stunts for which he is famous in the film world. The supports include the greatest tworeel comedy ever made. “Roaring Lions and Wedding Rolls.” It is the first of the Fox Sunshine Comedies, and should not he missed. Further chapters of the favourite serial “The Great Secret” will also be' screened, making one of the finest programmes yet shown.

POLLARDS PICTURES, RUDYARD KIPLING—MONDAY. On Monday evening in the Princess Theatre a truly great picturisation of Rudyard Kipling’s famous story “The Jewel of Desire” (Naulalika) will be presented by Pollard’s Pictures, perfectly produced by the Pathc Company with Antonio Moreno, Helen Chadwick and the world’s greatest dancer “Doraldine” in'the east. “The Jewel ot Desire'” is a picture that no lover of Kipling’s should miss. It exhales the weird and mysterious atmosphere of India in contract to the matter of fact western lovers facing dangers (among the teeming million) seeking the “Jewel of Desire.” Ilair-breadth escapes, won derful settings. Sensuous dances, and a perfect love story by Britain’s greatest story-teller (Rudyard Kipling) describes tlie truly great picture.