AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

“THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG,” MONDAY.

On .Monday evening at the Princess Theatre “The Life Story of John Lee,” the man they could not bang, will be presented. A visualisation on the screen of one of the . most miraculous escapes from death upon the gallows ever known in the history of the universe. A true story, founded on actual facts. Frederick Haldane,-the eminent English actor-orator, who has been specially brought to New Zealand, will deliver a dramatically thrilling and sparkling lecture, synchronising with every detail of the picture. The wildest imagination of fiction writers has never surpassed the wonderful true story of actual escape of death upon the gallows. The story opens in a cheerful way, and lias not the slightest suggestion of gloomy horrors. The picture is replete with pathetic incidents, relieved here and there with a touch of humour, the humorous portion being chiefly in Lee’s boyhood days, while among the pathetic parts are those which show the unswerving loyalty of bis wife, to whom lie was married in bis prison cell shortly after his sentence, and the faith of bis aged mother in her belief in the innocence of her son —a belief which she lived to see realised. As a story of the grievous wrong done to an innocent man, the picture provides food for serious thought. As a dramatic production it is excellently acted, and from a photographic point pf view it is first-elasis. Prices of admission are 2s Id ana Is Id; dress circle seats mav be reserved at .Mclntosh’s.