AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY-MADGE EVANS IN “THE LOVE NET.” Madge Evans is the chief of a Pirate Band in this clever story. She gets lip to tricks that are fascinating and as funny in places as Charlie Chjiplin. SOMETHING OF THE STORY. “The Love Net” is the story of the -quest of a latch-string—the latch-string being symbolical of the loving welcome aged and wealthy John Harding is looking for. Harding thinks he will findthe sort of a welcome he wants‘in the home of his nephew, but he finds only disappointment there . .Then he goes to the poor house, where one of his boyhood cronies is superintendent, and where another is an inmate. •• Madge appears in this picture in the role of Patty Barnes, granddaughter of Captain Harding’s boyhood friend. She is the chief of a “pirate band”— the band consisting of a number of the boys of the neighbourhood where she lives. Patty has a lot of adventures, not the least of the number being when the rich Mrs Gavthorne, who has no children of her own, manages to get Patty to come and live with her while Patty’s grandfather goes to the poor house.

On Thursday next Alice Brady in “Marie, Ltd.,” a big Select drama, the first of the new Vitagraph comedies, featuring Larry Semon, “Between the Acts.” These comedies are better than the Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and Mack Sennett’s, and the second episode of the new serial, “The Mystery of 13,” will be Pollard’s attractions.