AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD 5 ? PICTURE®. ! „ f* thc p nnccss Theatre oil Monday, I oUards will screen the exact kind of a i * Ul .*' * ou " Love, adventure, , Js > oxc,t cnieni/, sport, and all the | other ingredients that go to make up a asematmg entertainment. Mae Marsh Mays the part of Lucille Cameron, the leading character in the great racing drama, “T,ho Lacing Strain.” A brave, icautifiil girl, fighting every inch of the ''ay for the purse that will save her broken-spirited fattier from harsh ruin, flie night before the great race in Saratoga, a plotting gambler tries to dope the favourite, - Southern Honor, and nun-,his owner, the Colonel. The Colonel s daughter however, is on guard in tiic horse-box, and the plot fails. A comedy, scenic, and Topical will also he shown. There will be no display on Wednesday next as tlie theatre is engaged b.v the “Letter ’Ole” Coy., but Pollards will resume their usual running on xhursday.

‘ ‘THE- BETTER ’OLE.” "H i ( A NJiW MUSICAL COMEDY. i Captain Bruce Bairnsfathcr’s great comedy will ho staged at the Princess theatre on next Wednesday night, 28th April. “The Better ’Ole” direct'from ; lts Phenomenal success in .Melbourne and Sydney, is certain to arouse more . than ordinary interest. It is the actual play and not a picture, and will ho staged with the same attention to dcj tails that were such features of its ' metropolitan success. Kipling did for i file army what Bruce Bairnsfather is doing for it in .his cartoons, now culminating m his comedy. “The Better ‘Ole,” bringing the humble workmen of glory, the common soldier, so called, individually nearer the hearts of the British people,- This delightfully humorous play, in spite of the fact” that many catchy musical numbers and some clever dances have been introduced, must bo regarded as a genuine little art product. r i liere is so much genial human nature in it, and so vivid a suggestion of the silent endurance of danger and discomfort. Therein lay the true heart of our boys at the front beneath all the cheery, hand to mouth nonsense of casual day to day army life. The resultant theatrieal picture is thoroughly and alertly enjoyable, ns is being shown by the overwhelming enthusiasm with which it is welcomed everywhere. The artists says a contemporary, have overcome the difficulty ol not overdrawing the characters, whilst allowing for the touch ot caiinature. The acting is eleven-, and Die entertainment leaves behind it a somewhat unusual feeling of satisfaction. The production is Bruce Bairusfathor’s great cheer-up miisjcal comedy in the actual llosh, not a moving picture. The box- plan is at MeTiito-h’s.

McLEAN’B P3CTURES, “EYE E 01? EYE. TUE3D AY On Tuesday nest Yfr if,-Lean presents ;it tlie Princess Theatre n great Naziinova production "Eye for Eye.” It is a passionate lore story of a girl of the desert.— greater than Carmen—more glowing than Salome. The romance of a beautiful Arab girl aflame with passionate love for a French sailor, condemned to a terrible death by torture because she connived at iiis escape. Sold as a. slave at auction to the highest bidder. The meeting after cars and the blossoming of a wonderful love. A story more wonderful than the Arabian A'ights, daring in ts intensity, boundless in its beauty, ft depicts ‘.he passions of the East, and lie male chivalry of the West. The . wonderful Xazimova in the dance of the veils. The arid African desert, the bine of the iMeditleranean, the mystery and the blazing colour of the walled town of Tangier*, the secret places of the East arid Orient all these are blended in kaleidoscopic array in this wonder story.