AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1919, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT

“ The Tiger’s Eye,” the 2nd episode of the Pathe Serial "The House of Hate,” and the picture version of Winston Churchill’s famous novel “ The Crisis ” will be screened by Pollards at the Princess Theatre to-night. “The Crisis” as a novel, was the best seller when published, and is now almost a classic. The screen version has been produced by the Selig Coy. with Thomas Santschi as the star, an actor that has a reputation as a strong movie actor. Bessie Eyton plays Virginia Carvel to his Stephen Brice, and the supports have all been excellently chosen. The love story of these two charming characters is of course the main interest of the film, but'an incidental interest of importance is the astonishing manner in which it brings back to life the period of American history I preceding the Civil War, and is very instructive from this point ©f view.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

OPERA HOUSE—-FRIDAY.

Mr McLean presents to-morrow evening the super paramount entitled “Vive la France” or “The Cross of Shame”,

featuring Dorothy Dalton. The story in brief is as follows:—Jenevieve Bouchctte, a motion picture actress, on learning that her aged parents have been murdered by the German troops in France returns to her native town. There she meets J'can Picard, an army cinematographer who once had been her leading man in motion pictures. He is wounded and is cared for by Jenevieve in an old chateau. The Germans are in possession of the place, and frequently insult her, Jean escapes from the chateau, and delivers a message, which results in an Allied victory, but

falls a victim to his wounds. Jenevievo is branded with the cross of shame by tl'e Germans and in an effort to escape, while wearing the German uniform is arrested by French soldiers. She is sentenced to bo shot as a spy, but is saved when the “Cross of Shame” branded upon her bosom is discovered. Also gazette and further chapters of the serial “The Eagle’s Eye.