AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

MONDAY

On Monday next Pollards will screen a First National big feature, “Human Desire.” The theme of the story is motherhood and the prologue pictures how a patient man’s love may be killed b|v a woman who is too cold, apid hoW later he may find his ideal in a child of warm impulsive Italy, is told in “Human Desire,” in which Anita Stewart is starred. The scenes of the picture are laid in Italy ,and in and around New York City. Miss Stewart has the part of a little Italian girl brought up in a convent. She never has seen a real baby, yet she loves babies more than anything else in the world, and daily brings lilies which she lays in the arms of the Frampini Madonna. Two American women come and she asks them if there 'are real babies in the world. They tell her that there are lots of them, and some of them are cold and hungry. This touches the heart of Berenice, and she decides that she will go to America, and comfort the cold hungry babies. So, after a great storm which breaks open the front door of the convent, she escapes and starts. On the beach she finds boy’s clothes. Putting these on she is later found by an American, the lover of one of the woAJmcrican, the lover of one of the women who came to the convent. He decides to help such a pretty and intelligent boy and furnishes him with funds to go to America. In America the actual play is worked out. A beautiful Outing Chester Scenic and Educational subject completes the programme. Coming Wednesday: Louise Huff in “Crook of Dreams.”

STAR PICTURES. 3 P.M. AND 8 P.M. SATURDAY. The Star Pictures will present another of their capital programmes at the Westland Opera House on Saturday (matinee at 3 p.m., evening at 8 p.m), when they will present Evelyn Nesbitt and William Thaw in the great human masterpiece “The Woman who Gave.’ Jt is a thrilling live picture full of human incidents of a most stirring and attractive nature, which will greatly please patrons. The supporting programme is a strong one, including an attractive comedy.