AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT.

Clara Kimball Young in "The Road Through the Dark,” will be Pollard’s star picture at the Princess Theatre tonight. This is a real drama. You will never see anything finer in the way of emotional acting than Clara Kimball Young as the French mistress, by compulsion, of a German Prince during the early period of the war, when the Huns thought they had the ball at their feet. “The Road Through the Dark” led to a glory/ love and honour for a beautiful girl after a fearful sacrifice. You want a real thrill. Well, come and see Clara Kimball Young in a new Select drama of the German rush on Paris in 1914. These were the dark days of the war, when the Huns tried to frighten Europe into submission by sack, pillage, and outrage, and Gabrielle Jardee sacrificed her honour for Franco. The Empress of Emotion has never done anything quite as frond as this. A story of a woman who never hesitated to drive ahead through the one road which was open.

On Wednesday Pollards will screen.a big Australian production, “The Hayseeds at the Melbourne Cup.”

MCLEAN’S PICTURES.

“WE SHOULD WORRY.” TUESDAY Jan e and Katherine are living with their aunt, Miss Ashton, young, beautful and wealthy, who has many suitors The children decide the worthiest is Jack Fenton Their aunt also prefers him until Percival Gilpatrick arrives. Gilpatriek is suave and smooth and dazzles her, but Jane and Katherine are suspicious of him. He is really a crook come to rob the bank.

Gilpatrick lias brought with him two pals who investigate the situation while their leader ingratiates himself with the local aristocracy. He wishes to propose to Miss Ashton a. dozen times but on each occasion the children foil him. The scoundrel loses through the cleverness of Jane and Katherine. They have been watching Gilpatrick, and know enough of his movements on the night of the robbery to set Fenton on the trail that leads to Percival’s being unmasked. Jack turns to Miss Ashton, who smiles at him, calls Jane and Katherine to her side and whispers something in their ears. They smile their understanding, run to Jack, and greet him with: “Hello, Uncle!” “Wg Should Worry!” shows them as a matrimonial committee of two which’ brushes aside such incidents as bank burglars, kidnappers and fortune-hunters in arianging a marriage for their aunt. Coming: “Why I would not Marry.”