AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

On Monday next Pollards will present J. Stuart Blackton’s great dramatic masterpiece “The Common Cause” with an all-star cast, war

scenes with tanks, battleships, big guns and masses of fighting men in action, that are powerful and authentic—and what is more important to us.—lt is not guilty of the fallacy of crediting America with winning the war—but presents truthfully and proportionately her share in assisting, if somewhat late in the day, tho already war worn Allies. Tt shews the efforts made by-those Allies to wake up America to a sens 0 of her responsibility—and how she answered the call. The comedy element of the story is in the capable hands of no less a famous English comedian than Lawrence Crossmith who makes his screen debut in “ThcCommon Cause” a production you cannot afford to miss. lan Hay, who wrote “The First Hundred Thousand” and many other famous successes, wrote “Tho Common Cause” ; the war story with a laugh, a thrill, a throb. The human side of the great world struggle. In addition to the heart-gripping "story and masterful direction there are fourteen famous stars. The greatest cast eve.r screened .headed by Sylvia Breamer and Herbert Rawlinson, and including Trene Castle and Lawrence Gross mi th.