AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. ,• To-night Pollard’s are screening a , big Blue Ribbon Feature starring Alice i Joyce in “Slaves of Pride”. A picture , that tears the veil from pride, revealj ing this sin as the deadliest of the , seven supreme evils. Everyone, more lor less, is a slave of pride, the first of .the familiar category of evils. This girl Iliad been paraded, offered and presented j for ten years on tbe auction block of I matrimony and was now virtually sold into jnarrifjge. Instead of her greatest •joy, her marriage became a shallow j escape. How does a bride possessed of | high character and fine resolves face I this situation? How can she become ' tbe victim not only of another’s pride, I but of that shameful thing called a ‘Marriage of Convenience’? What a herculean task is hers to reclaim her life from such apparent ruin. She bad the misfortune to be born beautiful it brought her luxury and with it Iragcdy but romance was waiting. Is it impossible to turn pride into love? Her husband showered her with wonder

j Lil gifts but lie forgot about love—i Hu* love lor which her soul was starved. I'D look a peculiar freak of fate to bring ■ him to a proper realisation of life and love, and to appreciate the wonderful 'Oman be bad married. Alice Joyce, :s Patricia Leeds, is a girl of wondrous beauty and charm. It takes a true ar- - 11 ist to portray the strong, yet fragile ,character of the girl who finds herself swept into tbe distasteful intrigue of I mother , into a life of perpetual parading before eligible husbands; into , marriage with a man she does not love, j but lor whom affection grows. Miss j-b’yee makes the part alive, pulsating, appealing. On Wednesday next Louise | i lii(T in “T Other Dear Charmer” will be Pollard’s Star attraction.