AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. “SATAN IN SYDNEY” TO-NIGHT. To-night at the Princess Theatre, Pollards will screen Beaumont Smith’s latest Australian production “Satan in Sydney,” a six reel plioto drama of intense, gripping, human interest, depicting an Australian girl’s struggle for existence amid the temptations and perils of Darker Sydney. This picture has a special appeal to everyone. It might have been your daughter, your sister, your sweetheart, “Satan in Sydney” drives the truth home with sledge hammer blows. There is a little Satan in the best of us. Many parents keep Satan in his work of moral destruction, busily employed, by sending their girls just as little Anne was in this drama—to the city, totally unequipped to battle for existence against terrible odds, Por them there is only one resource in the latest extremity. Mothers, have you ever thought of this. Oil Monday next Pollards will present the great racing drama, featuring Mae Marsh, “The Racing Strain.” The exact kind of a story you will like. a

MCLEAN'S PICTURESBILLIE BURKE, FRIDAY. Billie Burke in “Good Gracious Annabelle 1” a film version of one of the most amusing plays ever produced in America or Australia, will be the attraction at the Princess Theatre'on Friday. Clare Kumnier, authoress of such successful comedies as “A Successful Calamity,” and “Be Calm, Camilla!” wrote “Good Gracious Annabelle!” and the play contained a lot of humorous dialogue. “Good Gracious Annabelle!” is her best play to date, and the reason for this will not bo hard to distinguish after one has witnessed the picture. A husband and wife who didn’t know each other! Can you imagine it? Good Gracious! Married for -years, she a sweet young girl of charming appearance, piquant and delightful, married to a niftier—more, a bearded miner! Can you imagine it. It happened in “Good Gracious, Annabelle!” that is to say, in which Billie Burke takes the part of Anuabelle, who didn’t know her husband’s name and didn’t recognise mm when she saw him. Nor did lie recognise her. “Good Gracious, Annabelle!” is one of Billie Burke’s spiciest comedies. Tne supporting items include Fatty Arbuckle in his new two reel comedy, “A Desert Hero.” “A Desert Hero” is laid in a wild western town, where sheriffs are killed every ten minutes of the day by the boisterous population whose hang-out is a dance hall, of which a giant bully is the proprietor. “Fatty” has made a fortune in a desert mine, and goes to the town to enjoy himself. Pie enters a dance hall to change gold into currency, and discovers it a hotbed of crookedness. The star dancer, Molly, a girl so innocent that she wouldn’t pick wild flowers, refuses to enter into a scheme to separate Fatty from his money, and she is thrown out into the street. Patty I decides to pick this brand from the burning, and after giving an exhibition of prowess, be is elected sheriff by acclamation. Then tlie fun begins.

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MUSICAL COMEDY AT, HOKITIKA. “THE BETTER ’OLE.” At the Princess Theatre on next Wednesday night 28th April, will be staged Bruce Bather’s great musical comedy, “The Better ’Ole, which enjoyed such a phenomenal run at Tivoli Theatres, Melbourne and Sydney. Mr Lioiir el Walsli plays the role of Old Bill, and fits the character so well that one would think that Bruce Bairnsfather, the author, had him in mind when creating the part. Bill’s chums Alf and ’Ero are undertaken by Mr Hubert Lee and Mr Harry Young respectively. j- ' e French maids (Victorie and Suzette), are played by Miss .Juno Ardell and Miss Louisa Pascoe, whilst all tk c aractors are happily east. Miss L Henry is the principal danse use of the companv, and amongst her numbers aie the craze d„cc,-tl.o Jazz and T,dIo Toe. The Better ’Ole abounds i buicrlit. and catchy music; m amongs Blighty; The Fancy Shop M ashing Dav, and Venus de Milo to Me. ' is the actual play and must not be con- , founded with a moving picture tl 1 same name. The box plan is at Mein tosli’s Princess Theatre.