AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES.

NORMA TALMADGE, WEDNESDAY. “The Devil’s Needle” a startling indictment against the drug habit featuring Nonna Talmadge as the model will l>e presented by Pollard’s in the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. “The Devil’s Needle” is a daring item against the use and effects of drugs on a man and a girl. The star is an artist’s model ,and is addicted to a drug. She recommends it to an artist as an incentive to inspiration. He succumbs to the habit and becomes degraded and (iseless. The girl cures herself, then sets out to redeem the man she started on a downward path. Norma Talmadgc makes a lovely and appealing picture in the role of the model, while Tally Marshall is responsible for very fine characterisation in the part of the artist. His acting is at times more forcible and truthful than pleasant, but the slow disintegration of a talented mind through a pernicious drug is hardly an atractive sight at any time. Tlie picture by its very forecfulness points a strong moral, and while being unsuitable for exhibition to children, is a charming indictment of an existent evil. The 14tli Episode of the “Lightning Raiders completes the Rill. On Thursday, Pollards will screen the great

Australian production “Satan in Sydney.”

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“HARD ROILED, TO-NIGHT.”

This evening at the Princess Theatre, Mr McLean presents Dorothy Dalton in “Hard Roiled.” If you were a show-girl stranded in a village and a sweet-faced old lady took you into her home and mothered you, would you play the “Vamp” if necessary to save her cottage from foreclosure, by a pious old skinflint? Sec “Hard Roiled” for the answer. She was “Hard Roiled” the villagers said, because she was a stranded show-girl. But she proved that she had a: heart when it came to a question of fooling an old skinflint hypocrite to save the home of her benefactress. Did she do right?