AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! At the. Princess Theatre to-night Pollardes are screening another of the Paralta Features. A sequel arid equal to ‘•Tess of the Storm Country” entitled “The Rose of Paradise” featuring the pleasing actress Bessie Barriscale in the sunshine picture you need in these tern times. With her fiddle and a pan of kittens, Jennie enters the world’s • arena. Life’s grime and grisly passions cannot tarnish her faith in God’s creatures. Those twisted in spirit, those broken in body lire hers to love. She plays the song of God’s faith on her fiddle, and works the miracle of her love among half humanity in life’s back. , yard. Bessie Barriseale is Jennie, a crystal chaise that contains life, loveliness, and the ever young spirit of Mother Coe. The sixth episode of the populai serial “The Man of Might” .a comedy and scenic completes the programme.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES, FRIDAY’S PROGRAMME;. ], w. Griffith’s masterpiece, “The Girl' Who Stayed at Home” in seven reels will be the grand attraction at the Princess Theatre on Friday nignt. D TV - . Griffith’s genius is best expressed in th'e way he shows the bigness of appatently little things. He takes a page from the book of life, and from that page gives ns an entertainment of the rarest order. It is a Griffith page full with all the characteristics, humor and pathos of real people. The story of a country girl who waited faithfully and seemingly in vain for the boy who went awav and left his coat on a scarecrow as the only tangible memory for her to love. A feature of the masterpiece is the tremendous finish—an astounding dramatic climax, which is unlike anything seen in motion pictures before. .Every incident in the production leads up to this extraordinary ending, whicii will literally make audiences gasp with excitement. Yon are held spell hound and then as with a- sweep of the hand Griffiths untangles the threads, m :>• fashion that will make even the most thriTl-hardened “movie" cry with PW The supporting items include a 2-reei Mack Senuett comedy “His First False Step.” ' ’ .