AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. MADGE EVANS TO-NIGHT. To-night-Pollard’s will screen a World Film Drama featuring the charming child actress Madge Evans in “A Home Wanted.” This picture has been produced under the direction of. T/efft John son, f'roin a story by- Lucy Sarver, and little Madge Evans gives a sincere and charhiifig pcfformance as the orphan who runs away iii search 0 f a mother. She takes Spotty, a frCchled y bungs ter, with lifer ,iri her investigation of the big house across the way. Site believes her beautiful mother to be there, Mut she finds instead a gruff old ogre by the name of lilajol- Ainsworth, who resides alone with his old valet, Pierre. Tlie Major had had trouble with his family years ago arid tlie event had turned him into a man .of considerable temper. Madge takes him out in bis wheel chair and it runs away,. carrying the old army, officer down a steep hill. He is rescued by Dick Washburn, a physician, who brings liim around on the road to recovery. Dick, incidentally, is engaged to Letty Thompson a. charity worker and Madge's good Samaritan. It happens that as Dick is administering to the ,Major lie comes across Some evidence that establishes the old irian as his.father. \ So Madge acts as Cupid arid peacemaker. Arid a|l is well in the big' house arid the little girl finds her “mother” in letty. A pretty picture full of sympathy and ap,. peal. Naturally it contains a.deep. notp. of, child interest. There is no question that, it will send every onlooker p\yn|r ’ completely satisfied. The play is well cast and mounted. . , , In a certain town in New Zealand there lives an elderly couple who have no children. To fill the empty corner they have adopted little Madge Evans, the World Film Corporations’ wonderful little child actress. Whenever she is billed in a cinema play they go to see her ,and they make no secret of the fact that they liavfe, so to speak, adopted her. And if the truth were known they are not the orily ones who have, fallen victims to the elf-like, wiles of Madge. On Thursday Olive Thomas in “Toton” will he Pollards’ star attraction. wv: mi -4* - -