AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS .

POLLARD'S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. At the princess Theatre to-night, Pol_ lards will screen an English production with ari all star caste entitled “Choosing a Wife.” ’Twas ever thus—The man of forty-five would wed the girl of twenty! With all the assurance of the world he turns liia back on the woman of his own age when seeking a wife. Why should men bo allowed to-be so unjust? Perfectly nice men—otherwise good and just men, feel entitled to wed girls years and years their juniors, while women of their own age, who would make them better wives, are allowed to pine away in Jonliness. Is it fair for a girl of twenty, with a score oi admirers, to deprive a woman of forty of her only opportunity to marry? You’ll get the answer in “Choosing a Wife.” The latest Gazette and comedy completes the programme. On Wednesday next Alice Joyce will be the star attraction at Pollards in “The Winchester Woman. ’

McLEfIN’S PICTURES.

TO-MORROW. —“ TRUE BLUE.” William Farnum, in “ True Blue,” will bo the attraction at the Princess Theatre to-morrow night. This is a William Fox production, and is said to be fully the equal of “ Les Miserables,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” and “When a Man Sees Red.” In “True Blue,” Mr Farnum portrays the part of a western ranch owner—a human, manly man. The story is out of the ordinary and deals with a phase of life new to the cinema. An English “ remittance man, suddenly becoming possessed of title and estates, deserts his American wife and young son, to return to England to claim his inheritance. He does not take them witli him, for the reason that he believes he married “ beneath bis station.” This young son grows up on a ranch in the boundless West and becomes the central figure in this drama if life. This character is played by Mr William Farnum. Over in England, the titled father, on learning of the death of bis American wife, has married again and has another son a dissipated profligate young man. Through a strange series of incidence the half brothers are brought together on the Western ranch—one with doep resentment in his heart; the other, weak and unconscious of the relationship. William Farnum, as the strong brother, begins the reformation and regeneration of his weak relative, and this accomplished, sends him bark to his people in England—.a man. Running through the entire production is one of the sweetest love stories ever produced—a story that brings the half-brothers into apparent rivalry for the hand of a charming young woman.