AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD*? PICTURES. HEREDITY TO-NIGHT. Barbara CasMeton, Madge Evans and John Bowers are featured in the World Film super play “Heredity” Pollard’s star picture in to-night’s all new programme. “Heredity” tells a wonderfully pathetic story of a little girl’s love for a young man who passed out of her life for many years and returned just in time to save her from death. The court scene where the innocent girl is tried for murder is a striking incident in the play. The story is novel and sensational with plenty of thrills in addition to a delightful love themo that is woven through its many scenes. Barbara Castleton has splendid opportunities to display her great emotional talent in “Heredity.” McLEAN’S PICTURES,

On Friday at the Princess Theatre, Mr McLean presents Jane and Katherine Lee, the talented tandem dots of picture-land, returned to us in “Doing Their Bit,” a play based on a.patriotic theme, but praiseworthily free from the thump and turmoil of war ,with its all too true but deplorable picturing of violence and devastation.

The Lee sisters assume the roles of two little Irish lassies who, orphaned are left in the care of a kindly American uncle, a munitions manufacturer, and his wife, whose underlying good traits are submerged in the process of social climbing. Spies inveigle themselves into the confidence of the manufacturer’s son and seek to destroy the plant ,but hero enter our paired pocket edition of patriots, who bring their evil plot to naught. Not alone does war and its machinations interest these youngsters, but the hampered love affair of the daughter of their ambitious foster mother and the humble factory hand is aided by them, much to her disappointment and that of the scion of the society leader, who really needed some of the manufacturer’s millions. drollery and mimicry that bring th tears of laughter to the eves me abounding features of the work of clever little artists. “Doing Tie Bit” is decidedly worth sitting through. Another episode of the delightful seiial Stingaree will be shown. A Fox Gazette of the very latest will conclude a splendid programme.