AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1921, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT! VO-NiGIIT 11 To-night at the Princess Theatre Pollards are screening another of the popular English photoplays ontitod “Nature’s Gentleman” a Hanna All British production. The story of a girl of the aristocracy who marries a man of humble origin, and finds that 111 no blood is not all that matters, and huiiini I.;, is iiieiisnri 1 hv one standard nobility of character. English producers, their resources crippled by the Great War, could hardly he expected to rival America in lilm production in fliir-time, hut now England is coming into her own, and every succeeding picture seems better than the last, and “Nature’s Gentleman” reaches a very high standard. It is a typically British story, breathing British sentiment and thought; it differs radically from the American conception of the Britisher because it portrays the real tiling and not the imitation; hence you see Unhealthy, natural British girl in the picture making her breakfast, fully dressed not attired in the intimate garments that belong by right to the boudoir of good, old-fashioned porridge ( and bacon and eggs. Tt’s a British production for British people, and it shows that Britain is looking to her laurels. On Monday next Constance Talmadge in her First National Attraction “A Virtuous Vamp” will bo Pollard’s star attraction