AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

"THIS HERO STUFF,” TO-NIGHT

Bollard’s will present to-night at the •Princess Theatre a Rathe feature "This Hero Stuff” starring the popular William Russell. It is tho story of a modest, war-worn hero who preferred to he branded a coward rather than brave the limelight of the ‘Hero Stuff!” Everybody dubbed him coward, and he was glad of it. They taunted him with liis yellow streak, and he glorified in it. Wasn't that a funny attitude for a real live hero to adopt? Yet lie had a reason-lie wanted to be liked lor himself —not what he had got medals for - *,i nil lie certainly succeeded in getting himself cordially disliked. Then the girl came along and she branded him a coward, and that hurt, so lie proceeded to become a hero again, knowing that a man is no hero to his own wifeanil he had hopes. How he does it in a whirl-wind series of scraps fights, cleanups, will make you marvel at the strength and endurance of this king of athletes, known familarly as "Big Bill Russell.” Further episodes of the serial “Smashing Barriers.”

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

‘CINEMA MURDER” FRIDAY

On Friday evening Mr McLean presents Marion Davis in “The Cinema Murder,” adopted from E. Phillip ()p----penheim’s novel of the same name. It presents Marian Davies as a vivacious, high-spirited actress, a role in which she is, of course, thoroughly at home, she being a graduate of tho musical comedy stage. Embodying romance and adventure of a typical Oppenheim stamp; the baffling mystery of a. cinema murder; the struggle of a beautiful girl of high ideals to win fame as an actress. Elizabeth Ralston a promising voting actress, has attracted the interest. of an unscrupulous financier named Power, who sends her abroad for operatic instruction, supposedly with the intention of* starring her in a play at his new theatre. Motoring through ru-. ral England after having completed hen. course of instruction, Elizabeth is delayed by an accident to her motor. She is the witness to a fight on the hanks of a canal between Douglas and Philip Romillv. i-ousins. Philip is seeking to force Douglas, who is an embezzler, to acknowledge a girl whom he has wronged. Phillip knocks Douglas into the water and apparently kills him. Then he utilises his cousin’s passport, and is on tin* same steamer which Elizabeth takes hack to America. A warm friendship.springs up between the two. Philip is a play-wright and through Elizabeth’s intervention Power produces a piny the young Englishman has written, with Elizabeth in the starring role, [t is a tremendous success. Oil the night that Phillip declares his love tor the ,/j: |. Rower also comes mid makes her a proposal, lie lias a wife living and Elizabeth indignantly repudiates him. Tn the meantime Scotland Yard is on the trail of Phillip. Power learns the reason of his presence in America and tells Elizabeth that tie will expose her sweetheart unless she yields to his demands. Again she refuses, though the financier promises to save Phillip it she will accede. At the moment when the young man is about to be arrested on a charge of murder, his supposed victim Douglas Romilly .who, merely stunned in» the light ,lias been hiding in England on account of the embezzlement, appears and clears him. The thirteenth chapter of tlie serial "Wolves of Kultur” will also he shown.