AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1919, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD S PICTURE.

The Triangle feature that challenges all productions for supremacy of the screen, ilex Beach’s wonder story, “ Laughing Bill Hyde,” will be screened by Bollard’s at the Princess Theatre on next Monday evening. “ The Barrier,” “ The Auction Block,” and “The Spoilers,” are all surpassed by “Laughing Bill Hyde.” The title role is played, or rather h'ved by Will Rogers, the cowboy comedian whose name is a household word throughout America. He sprang into fame over-night and his witty sayings have been a feature of Ziegfeld’s Follies; having himself passed over the rough places of life he is peculiarly qualified to pourtrav the escaped convict seeking redemption by his own creed of love and kindness to fellow-kind. The grim humour and ready repartee of “ Laughing Bill Hyde ” are an index to the character of the man who always smiled hir way through adversity. How he broke through the slough of evil into the sunshine of success the* picture shows in intense scenes.

Never quit a pal, is the code of “ Laughing Bill Hyde.” He lives up to it in Rex. Beach’" wonderfully gripping story of the Alaskan goldfields. Will Rogers in the title role gives a portrayal of the man who always smiled. that paralyses by its fidelity and vividness. “ Laughing Bill Hyde’s ” opinion of the doctor who befriended him' ' There’s only two colours of men, white. And yellow. You look like the Milky Way to me.” He was a man' who always smiled in the face of the fiercest danger, and a living typification of the fact that crime is mostly caused by environment and lack of education. Take a man out of the environment and his true character must come to the surface. A reason why this picture is a wonder is that' Will Rogers is “ Laughing Bill Hyde’s” living counterpart..