AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

——- POLLARD’S PICTURES,

TO-NIGHT 1 TO-NIGHT! This evening Pollard’s Pictures will screen a special Mutual Feature, “Up Romance Road,” starring William Russell. An' all-interest story of a love affair which ran too smoothly until Bill got mixed up with a German spy plot. He found things too easy, so he stirred up trouble for his own love affair. Fast fighting Bill Russell in a smashing drama of love, society, and the Hun i spy system. Gregory Thorne is a young chap of wealth and position who is bored by pink teas and social matters, and yearns for the high lights of adventure. In a spirit of mischief he pretends to bis fiancee’s father, a shipowner, that he knows the plotters who have threatened to blow up his plant if a ship loaded with supplies for the Allies is allowed to sail- The old man is riled, and forbids Gregory to see bis fiancee unless be divulges the identity of the crooks. Then -the excitement begins. When Gregory attempts to eiope with bis fiancee they are both kidnapped by the gang of spies, and held as hostages. Romance gets mixed in with spy plots. A 100 mile an hour ride on an automobile radiator. Coming Thursday, A Four Square production “The Silent Witness” starring Gertrude Mc_ Coy and Frank O’Connor.