AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT!! i j To-night Pollards are screening a big ' | Haworth feature “The Illustrious • IPrinee” s tat wing ,Sessile iTayakawa i from the famous novel by K. Phillips | Oppenheim—Master of plot and intrigue. Nothing has ever suited the polished finish of Sessile Hayakawa’s acting better than the character created by E. Phillips Oppenheim in his great story. His portrayal of the Oriental Prince who baffled Scotland Yard and

1 the cleverest diplomats creates an ab--1 sorbing picture. A story of mystery I and intrigue, love and loyalty, in the l .Smart Set of London Society. He had

■ sworn to avenge in blood the debt to the man who had dishonoured his father’s name. ITe trailed the unscrupulous adventurer to London and frustrated his attempt to compromise the wife of his dearest friend, the Duke of Dev-’,-enham.; Tn the dead of night, in dense fog, th e adventurer went to keep

his rendezvous with the Duchess; the | Duke learned of tlie affair and went to intercept them. Prince Maivo, the avenger. also trailed the man through ihe fog. The adventurer was found dead in the cab. Did the Duke kill him? Did the Prince. Who was the I oilier man involved in the mystery? , The latest episode of the great serial ‘‘Smashing Harriers will also be screenI ed.

McLEAN’S PICTURES. •‘SC'.VRI.KT D A VS,” FRIDAY. I). AY. (irifliths’s masterpiece “Scar’(■t Days,” in seven reels, will lie the :;:;i!hl attraction at tic Princess Tlieativ mi Friday evening. Rosy Nell is a lanee-liall giiT in a Californian mining village in tlio hoom days of ’l9. She has carefully kept secret her manner of living from her pretty daughter, having sent her away to a iashionable ■carding school for girls in the East, ■.ml is saving every cent she can in o'-uer eventually to give up her present eri.stence and join the girl, and be nppy in same other plaeec. Two wo■en of the hall attempt to steal her '» efid y hoarded savings. She attacks ti em fiercely anrl in. the struggle one of them fa Us dead from heart failure. Rosy Nell thinks she has killed the woman, Somim Sal, a favourite with Magi y, the brutal proprietor of the ,1 ume hall, an 1 the coarse men who frequent it. They accuse Rosy of the murder and prepare to string her to the

nearest tree. Rut Alvarez, the famous lesperado of the region, dashes upon

he scene and succeeds in making them • tay their purpose temporarily so that vosy may be with her daughter, who

has just arrived from the East. The bandit,' Ragle.v, and Randolph, a young aristocrat from A'irginia, enter into a pact r. ' ereby Rosy will be allowed to spend three peaceful days with her ■ laugliter in a miner’s cabin ami every man in the camp will pledge himself to mention not a word to the girl of her mother’s past life. Ragley covets the girl for her beauty and breaks his solemn promise. Assembling a gang of ruffians, lie attempts to break into the but where the women are, and Rosy’s daughter thus learns of her mother’s life of shame. Alverez and Randolph and a handful of others fight vainly to protect the girl. They are being overpowered when Alvarez resolves to sacrifice himself for her. By messenger he notifies the Sheriff that !.o will give himself up for his past notorious crimes, thus bringing the arm i f the law to the scene and scattering Ragley’s lawless band. Alvarez’s little sweetheart, Chiquita, pleads with the Sheriff for bis life, and the latter is so touched that lie makes little effort to stop the bandit when be dashes away with the girl on his saddle behind him. Rosy Nell lias been killed in the fight uni her daughter finds consolation in t'.o arms of Randolph.