AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY—HOWARD HICKMAN IN “BLUE BLOOD.” A story that reveals tile ruin and disaster caused by a tainted ancestry. Ho was tlie last of his line—the name would sink into oblivion unless lie married—yet there was always the ancestral taint of insanity that would .rise up gliostike to accuse him. He made his choice, brushed aside tile warnings of the physieial, and faced Ills future with selfish disregard. She was the daughter of society parents, struggling to keep up a face of prosperity—one chance remained to them of succeeding—to sacrifice tlieir only daughter on the altar of their ambition. Brought up to expect luxury and position, she counted not the cost of the sacrifice, but went to the altar unmoved by warnings as to her future—cold callous, a typical society bride. A drama of a girl’s greed for power and weath: Then came the inevitable with a debt to outraged nature to be met. How did they meet it? “You lied to me—my child is perfectly normal and healthy!” “That is not your child —your hoy died, a defective.” Yet sorrow had its compensations, and brought to the girl whose lesson was so hard earned a blessed recompense in a good man’s lovp.

On Thursday next Pollard’s big attraction will be Clara, Kimball Young in “Magda” Sudemnnn’a great drama.