AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARDS PICTURES.

REX BEACH’S GREAT DRAMA

‘THE BRAND.”

On Monday next' .Pollard’s will screen the greatest of Itex Beach’s Alaskan stories “The Brand ” This Goldwyn super feature is a great story by a groat student of human nature. It depicts in simple manner, but with dynamic force, the love and tragedy of three lives—a woman who has yet to learn the true value of love, a simplo prospector, clean of body and mind, whose love for the woman was the obsession of his homely life, and a man, jackal-somed, of corrosive mind, whose leprous touch brought tumbling to ruins the castle of happiness they had built around them. „ The debt iio incurred was paid according to the unwritten law of the great North. Itisascene whose dramatic intensity will remain a vivid picture in the mind. Rex .Beach makes happy selections in artists, and too much cannot be said for the performances of Russell Simpson as the prospector, lovely Kay Laurell as the girl, and Robert McKim as the disturbed of their domestic bliss.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 11. “ Under the direction of Alex Lorrimore McLean’s Pictures present on Wednesday next at the Opera House, Hokitika, William Faversham in that wonderfully successful drama “The Silver King.” It is • a masterpiece. (When w c say a Masterpiece we speak Webster’s Language). A screen sensatin featuring the renowned orginal creator of the role—William Faversham.” Forced by the wiles of a scoundhcl to leave the wife and children he loved, Wilfred Denver left them to hide in other lands. “Oh God, turn back Thy Universe and give me yesterday,” he cried, and yesterday came back to him—hut not till his hair had turned silver. He came back in time to save his loved ones from the very scoundrel who had ruined his life. ' The scenes include one of the greatest railway smashes ever known or recorded, also the Scotland Yard method of catching criminals is shown. Elijah Coombes, Nellie Denver, ‘Enery Corkctt, “The Spider,” Jacques, Geoffrey Ware, Baxter of Scotland Yard, and Wilfred Denver—all these are in the photo-drama, and all the sensational incidents of the drama too — the race for the Epsom—the murder of Geoffrey Ware—tho flight of Denver—the train smash—Denver reported dead and his dramatic return—the arrest of “The Spider” and his gang—and the reunion. Faces ghostly, but vivid. 'I hoy haunted the. haggard, white-haired millionaire—a man who had boon a spendthrift anil a wastrel. The man who had abandoned his wife and children to sorrow and poverty—the man who who was branded a murderer. It was these faces that drove- him back to his native England—his grieving wife and children—and back to within reach of the police. Special prices, adults Is 7d, children