AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. “ON OUR SELECTION,” TO-NIGHT To-night at the Princess Theatre, E. J. Carroll will present for one night only his greatest of all Australian successes “On Our Selection.” This great play has never been eclipsed in te'chhioal and photographic excellence and the story admirably lends itself to the sient enactment of the screen. There is an abundance of irresistible humor that compels roars of laughter. Yet underlying the story there is a trace of pathos in the lives depicted, for there are the heart-breaking trials of 4 the Rudd family in facing the calamitous drought and destructive bush fires. Thus one’s sympathies go out to those heroes and heroines in the interior of Australia to whom an apt tribute is paid in the words <Vf the dedication. “To you who gave our country birth, to the memory of you whose names whoso giant enterprises, whose deeds of fortitude and daring were never engraved on a tablet or tombstone.” In the opening scenes Old Dad Rudd and his eldest son Dave are yackering away in the distant solitude of the bush clearing the timber and erecting a rough but for Mrs Rudd and her family to occupy. Then when the lmt is completed the family leave the township and join Dad and Dave. There are many disconcerting experiences during the first-nights. An opossum falls into the midst of the sleeping family and creates a scene. This was scarcely less upsetting than the discovery of an iguana in one of the beds. On Wednesday next Pollards will screen another big Australian success, “The Face at the Window” produced by D. B. O’Connor.