AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

MCLEAN’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! SYNOPSIS OP “A DAUGHTER OF FRANCE.

Louise de Ciron, as brave lierself as her motherland, France, refuses to flee before an invading horde of Huns, led by Col. Rudolph von Knovr. The colonel and his staff, of which Capt. Fritz von. iMeyring is chief, billet themselves in the de Ciron Chateau. The barbaric nature of the men with whom lie has been surrounded has left its impress upon von Knovr, and he tries desperately to make Louise yield to his pleas of love. She despises him as she does everything German. Von Meyring also fascinated by the French girl, plots to obtain possession of her. Although Rudolph saves her by killing Fritz, the scheme works out in such, a way that Louise believes that von Meyring came to his death in trying to save her from his superior officer. Rudolph is court-

martialed and although ho establishes his innocence, Louise is still unconvinced. In a spirit of revenge she stabs Von Ivnorr. He prevents her arrest by a statement that his wound is the result of an accident. Gradually she realizes that Rudolph’s love is really true. She puts him to the severest test—one which has a dramatic ending, more surprising than any she has imagined. A Fox comedy entitled “Midnight Express,” will conclude one of the finest programmes shown to a Hokitika audience.

POLLARD'S PICTURES. At the Princess Theatre on Monday next Pollards present the great wonder picture “The Romance of Tara an,” the concluding chapters of “Taiwan of tile Apes,” (from tlie book by Edgar Rico Burroughs.) picturing with massive and overpowering effect the strange adventures that befell Tarzan, the primitive nobleman and white king ol an African ape tribe, who follows the beautiful white girl he has rescued to her home amid the regal magnificence of civilized society, and where love leads him into paths more dangerous than those he trod in his native wilds. You will see “Tarzan’s rescue of a white man from the jaws of an infuriated lion, dispatching it with a sheath knife, Tarzan’s fight with six savage cannibals, his only weapons Jiis naked hands; Tarzan’s rescue from death bv his faithful friend, Taufor, a gigantic wild elephant; Tarzan’s fight in a crowded ballroom for the honor of the lovely girl for whose love he left the jungle; Tarzan’s farewell, the beautiful ending, which is the best of all.