AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1919, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

! MCLEAN’S PICTURES. OPERA HOUSE-^-WEDNESDAY. A splendid all round programme will be shown on Wednesday evening. ' The big attraction is ‘ ‘Riddle Gawne’ ’, featuring W. S. Hart. “Riddle Gawne” is a fine satisfying picture with a moral that is genuine 'and unforced. It is a picture to make people laugh, and yet hold them tensely. It will bring tears yet never depress. Indeed, at a time when uplifting themes are desirable, it lias that inspiring quality and offers abundant and excellent entertainment for the public generally. “Riddle Gawne” is claimed to be W. M. S. Hart’s best to date. For this production Williaril’ S. Hart, found an ideal location California where the company lived for teii days just as the characters in the play would have lived, eating and sleeping in the open. The story is one of liiany thrilling and ' exciting situations and is. centred round a man’s revenge. Catherine MacDonald, one of the screen’s loveliest women, plays the leading feminine role, and has a fine supporting cast. The photographic work excels in beautiful “shots” of the rugged scenery. At Ross on Thursday “The Man’s World” will be shown. !

' POLLARD'® PICTURES. j “THE DIVINE, SACRIFICE.’’,—AND . NEW SERIAL. j On Thursday evening Pollard’s will ; present at the Princess Theatre, Kitty Gordon in the world Film’s sensational play, ‘The Divine Sacrifice,” which has for its plot, the refusal of a doctor’s wife to assume the most spcred duty of t state, and become a mother.' Why will you not assume the greatest' responsibility which can come to a wife— ‘ you who would have madfo such a ? wonderful mother ? Children are the bond which, keep husband and wife togjstliier, when others fail, hut she j heeded not; and so they separated and then came the other .woman, proving ; that those who fly in the face of con- ! volition are sure to suffer. “The House j of Hate” a new Patlie Serial, to which ; the Pollard management wishes ■to re- : mind patrons commences on Thursday evening by the screening of the Ist . episode, “The flooded Terror.” Antonio Moreno and Pearl White play fife parts of lovers and ‘ tlio mysterious figure ! which moves through the whole story is “The Hooded Terror” whose identity is j kept a secret to the end. The serial is ; one of the best that Patlie has produc- i ed, the movement of the story being j rapid and the thrills ; arranged on a j; breathless scale. “The Hooded .Terror” is much more mysterious in this serial j than “The Man In The Mask” was in j “The Iron Claw.” j