AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. TWO STARS TO-NIGHT. To-night at the Princess Theatre Pollards are screening tlie popular Anita Stewart, in a big First National attraction entitled “The Fighting Shepherdess.” It’s a thrilling romance of the rugged West, where civilisation touches the border of the primitive, with its terrific battles against Nature, and its fiercer Feudal hates and relentless warfare between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. You liked “In Old Kentucky,”—well, it is no exaggeration to say that this is as good, if not better. Anita Stewart is bigger, brighter, better than ever as Kate, the “Fighting Shepherdess.” Perhaps the reason is that the story is a woman’s, written by a woman, about a woman. Her struggle is epitomised in her final remark to the assembly of people who bad spurned her:—“Your enmity enabled mo to go oil —your contempt gave me courage to fight!” And then, woman-like; with all the cards in her hand, revenge within her grasp, she held out the olive branch, and helped those who had so cruelly wronged her. What was her reward ? The lasting love of which they had robbed her. The second star is another fine drama starring Olive Thomas in “Footlights and Shadows,” a story of love and a latch key. Tlie “inside story” of a Broadway beauty and a “Follies” favourite. A peep behind the scenes of the “Midnight Revue.” “Footlights and Shadows” was written and made to order specially for Olive Thomas. In addition to being the “Harrison Fisher Girl” she first met fame as a Ziegfeld “Follies” beauty, and the role of Gloria Dawn takes her back to lier former part in the “Midnight Revue.” Gorgeous scenes, costly gowns, thrilling situations, and lovely Olive Thomas. All the daazling grandeur, the fascinating beauty and the alluring charm of a magnificent stage spectacle.

On Wednesday next Howard Hickman in “Social Ambition,” a big Goldwvn feature will be Pollard’s star attraction.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“RED LANTERN,” TUESDAY". On Tuesday evening Mr McLean presents Nazimova, the living masterpiece of dramatic art, the girl of a thousand moods in the triumph of her career, in tlie “Red Lantern.” This story of the purple forbidden city dazzling in its grandeur, will be an enormous production. The “Red Lantern” is a play of mysterious China that gives Nazimova a dual role which reveals the tremendous range of her rare artistry. It is a story of an Eurasian girl—tlie daughter to two races—who feels the eternal conflict of tlie alien blood for ever raging within her soul. It is a theme to wake the pulses of the heart and fill the imagination witli tlie irresistible lure of secret Asia, with a splendour like the day and a mystery

ike tlie night, where the dancing shalows of the red lantern light seem leopled with the thousand and one nalignant devils, which, for ever haunt hose mystic and enigmatical people of

tlie East. “The “Red Lantern” resounds with barbaric melody and glows with the gorgeous and varying hues of the Orient. Special prices will h A charged, of 2s Id upstairs, Is 7d downstairs.