AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1920, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. JACK PICJKFORD THURSDAY. On Thursday next Pollards will screen that popular, actor Jack Pickford in a big first National Production of out door life entitled “Bill Appcrson’s Boy”, Jack Pickford plays the main part, it is a talc of the Blue Ridge mountains, chock full of pep, punch, pathos, action, drama, romance and last, but. not least, a genuine, oldfashioned Kentucky feud. “Bill Apperson’s Boy” is one of those pictures that gives you unbounded pleasure to witness—a picture that clinches and holds your attention from the beginning, and continues attention from the beginning, and continues to do so in every scene right up to the very end, a big supporting programme ineluding another episode of the very sensational serial “The Mystery of 13” will also be screened.

SMART SET DIGGERS! TO-NIGHT 1 TO-NIGHT! A deal more than the usual interest lis being evinced in the appearance of “The Smart Set” Diggers, a company of 2d Australian soldiers who have proved wonderfully successful in and '.Sydney. They wi/ll appear at the Princess Theatre to-niglit at 8 o’clock. They offer a remarkably diversified programme ..'ranging from grand opera to the latest jazz selections. . The piece de resistance is entitled “The Digger’s Dream of London and Paris” which is divided into a prologue and two acts; there are 10 scenes in the first and 10 in the second acts. To mi especially sparkling din-, logue is wedded a deal of dispiriting and catchy music, interpolated with clever dances and bright musical selections. Act I is located at the. Cafe de la Paix, Paris; Act 2 has a languorous Oriental setting. The dream in the prologue is an exposition of the events that are to follow. Australian critics are laudatory on the merits of the company, which comprises many really fine .artists, notably—Messrs George Castles, Ernest Crosby, Jock Thompson, Tiki Carpenter, Albert Torzillo, Lawrence Harper and Charles Holt. There are no (os's than five female impersonators, all of whom are spoken of as being clever.