AMUSEMENTS. POLLARD’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1921, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

MONDAY. On Monday next Pollards are presenting a big super ■ feature drama with a powerful east. <A great- story of the great war, with ;i throb, a thrill and a laugh. Although a war picture. ‘ The Common Cause" is a happy picture- for the world in travail had *ts smile; the trench and the dug-out contributed their share of the world’s laughter, and this laughter trickles through the action of this screen epic to a happy world. The names that brighten 'the cast of “'Hie Common Cause” are alone sufficient proof of its strength in dramatic interpretation. The story is one to make your heart tale of love, of saeritiee, action, heart-interest, whimsical humor, pathos you see them all at close range. Ft is presented in vivid, convincing manner; its drama, rich in virility and pathos, brightened with sparkling humour is presented by a cost unrivalled in the history of the screen; its war scenes, with tanks, battle-planes, big gunami masses of men in action are po" erful and authentic; and what is more important to ns, it is not guilty of the unpardonable sin of presenting to America all the credit of having won the world-war, hut presents truthfully and in proper proportion, the share that America shouldered, if somewhat late in the day, in assisting the already war-worn Allies..