AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. To-night at the Princess Theatre Pollards will present the big Super production, “The Common Cause,” by Major lan Hay, featuring an all star cast of no fewer than fourteen famous artists'. Now have a look at the cast of this remarkable production. It reads like a benefit performance. The all-star cast of “The Common Cause.” In the prologue and epilogue: Belgium, Effie Shannon; France, Irene Castle, Britannia, Violet Heming; Italy, Julia Arthur; Columbia, Marjorie Rambeau. In the story: Orrin Palmer, Herbert Rawlinson ; Helene Palmer, Sylvia Breamer; Edward Wadsworth, Huntly Gordon; Tommy Atkins, Lawrence Grossmith (the famous English comedian’s screen debut); the Poilu, Philip Van Lorn; two little refugees, Charles and Violet Blackton; Celeste, Mile. Marcel; Captain Back, Louis Dean. On Wednesday next Pollard’s star attraction will be Ruth Clifford in “A Kentucky Cinderella.” Ruth Clifford needs no introduction. This lovely little star is well known as one of the leading beauties of the screen, and no greater tribute could, be paid her than to simply say that she is the author s ideal in bee role of “A Kentucky Cinderella. McLEAN’S PICTURES. “JOHN PETTI COATS,”-TUESDAY. Mr McLean presents to-morrow evening ‘ John Petticoats,” featuring Win S Hart. Powerful in physique ' and mighty of heart, “Hardwood John Haynes” (Wm. Hart), a bashful and untaught son of the north western forests, is greatly troubled to know what to do with a fashionable New Orleans modiste shop, which he has inherited. Dressed in gaily-coloured lumberman’s outfit, he arrives in the city and hunts up the shop. The display in the window frightens him so that he is afraid to go inside. Judge Emerson Meredith' is also gazing into the windows, hut his feeling is solely of regret—(fiat he cannot afford to buy his granddaughter the graduation frock she wants. John strikes up an aoquaintmee with the Judge and becomes a hoarder at the Meredith home, bv paying eight weeks’ board in advance, and little Miss Caroline gets her frock. Later the betrayal of one of the shop • rirls by the man who is courting Caroline Meredith, leads to suicide. John leaps after her when she jumps off the pier and livings her ashore, hut she dies from exposure. Wayne Page the betrayer, makes it appear fchnit Baynes is responsible for the girl’s death, 'and Caroline sides with her grandfather when he orders the westerner from the house. The truth finally comes out in a letter written by the shop girl when dying, and John gets Caroline as his wife.