AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARDS PICTURES. A GREAT PICTURE TO-NIGHT. ‘ Sahara,” a 6000 ft. production that is claimed te be one of the really greatest pictures, will be screened by Pollard’s tooiight (Monday) only. . Sahara,” rich and sumptuous in Setting, colourful and powerful as to story, its scenes shifting from fascinatign Paris to enchanting Cairo and the sun-burned desert of Sahara, with Louise Glaum, the sumptuously gowned star is a story of woman’s frailty, her appalling vanity and final awakening to wifehood and motherhood and all they mean. “Sahara” furnishes for Louise Glaum an opportunity she has never had before ! to show her capability in roles ‘requiring both beauty and emotional talent. “Sa-, harii” tolls of a wife who built a/emple, pearl starred with her tears, and flashing with the jewels of the soul. 1 It was the Temple of Herself, and she made it beautiful in his sight, until a fabulously wealthy Russian Baron, with the craft of tile fox, weaving his dream of luxury and extravagance into the mincl of a fiatterv-loving woman. He beek- ■ J onecl and she listened. The latest Topical and a beautiful scenic, “Winter Sports at Quebec,” will also he shown. Coming Thursday—Jack Pickfo'rd in “Bill Appuson’s Boy.” SMART SET DIGGERS. The Australian ■ Smart Set Diggers’ season commences at the Princess Theatre to-morrow night. So far as female impersonation is concerned, it is reported as being the strongest combination of "its kind ever attempted,, the Diggers’ ladies being not only numerically strong-, but they are also credited with unusually clever imitations of the fair sex, while their dressing'is reported as a revelation'of good 'taste, 1 ' extreme fashion and gorgeous display. 'Their opening programme is of remarkably varied nature, ranging from such items as Pagliacci prologue, arranged for three Voices,- to the latest ragtime crazes, special features being one -scene! burlesques of the “ Country Girl,” “ Camille,”' and “ Girls of Gottenburg ” items, of which Australian! in the highest praise. A special feature of tlie programme will be ai item entitled “Dress Parade, an Issue from the East,'”' in which “ Omad Kliyyam, his favourite wife, the ladies of the harem and Eastern slaves, are reported as creating uproarious fun;” relieved by the’.Danse Salome and other Eastern specialities' by leading “ lady” Charles Holt, and his Digger corps de ballot.