AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 April 1919, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD 1 ? PICTURE?.

On Monday evening next one cf the finest programmes and star pictures ever presented to a Hokitika audience will be screened by Pollard’s Pictures. No picture, was ever more appropriately named than the Select feature “ The Moth.” Norma Talmadge plays the title part ol a moth wife—a woman beating her wings against the flaming bars of convention. She had leapt from childhood to womanhood before she had time to be a girl. Her marriage is disastrously unhappy. She fails to realise the joys which her children should give her. So life drifts along for the discontented moth, fluttering constantly about the flame ol her own folly, until the appearance of a dashing and mysterious soldier ol fortune. His attentions bring her nearer and nearer to the danger mark. The intensity increases, becomes more breathless, thrill follows thrill, expectation reels dizzily, until the tremendous climax of this mighty human drama bursts in a glory of happiness.

MoLEAN’S PICTURES.

“ THE JUDGMENT HOUSE,” TO-NIGHT.

To-night at the Opera House Mr McLean presents the great six-reel Paramount special, “ The Judgment House.” The gripping story of the loves of Jasmine Grenfell, heiress to a fortune and a name, coquette, who took a year out of life in which to spread her butterfly wings before losI ing herself in matrimony—who played with the loves of two men, aud then cast them aside and married another. But even in marriage her coquettish heart secreted a love for lan Stafford, the mau who had waited. But his love died, and Jasmine wondered. She left her husband, but the men she had tooled were men who could never forget, and in desperation the coquette threw herself into a world that received her with open arms. It is a great stirring picture of much power, A splendid supporting programme, with full orchestra, will also be screened,