AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

At the Princess Theatre on Wednesday Pollards will screen Bessie Love in “The Dawn of Understanding,” i i re t Harte’s famous prairie romance. The story is a quaint romance, colorful of tin* West in the gold days, of pathos and near tragedy and. relieved by touches of light comedy, so typical of Bret Harto stories. There is action always, and near tragedy, a combination that commands and holds the interest of all. There is pictured first, with consummate skill, a caravan of prfiiric waggons crossing the plains in the days of MU, carrying Sue and her parents. Then the hermit ranch of Ira Beasley, by itself a part from Bolinas Plains, where- Sue’s mother dies and she is left by her father to Ira, and remains with the uncouth man, not because she cares for him, but because she has come to loathe her father. Ira comes to love her but is too shv to speak. Then is pictured Sue, the lowliest picture in all the vast Western plains, doomed to drudge her life away. And then the one brief romance in her pathetic existence, a fleeting glimpse at what she imagines love might be. She gives refuge to a circus acrobat fleeing from the sheriff, and yields to his importunities to elope, but fate interposes, a tragedy is narrowly averted, and Sue’s romance opens out into a happy union with the man who loves her. On Thursday Pollards will screen for the first time in Hokitika the great English actor Sir Johnston. ForbesBolieitson, in “The Passing of the Third Floor Back.”.