AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. To-night at the Princess Theatre the groat Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa will be featured in his latest picturo “The Tong Man.” A daring but Artistic Expose of the Gruesome Mysteries of San Francisco’s Chinatown, delicately interwoven with a love story of charm and beauty. What you’ll see in “The Tong Man.” A riot in Chinatown when the police raid the headquarters of The Secret Tong. Sessue Hayakawa in daredevil stunts—jumping off roofs, skidding down fire-es-capes, crashing through skylights and rescuing his Chinese sweetheart. How a lascar sailor “gets” his man by hurling a knife into his victim’s hack. A secret meeting of the Notorious Tong

— l The Chinaese Black-hand Society in session. Realistic and graphio scenes in the hop joints and gambling dens of the underworld of Chinatown. A spectacular and realistic drama of Chinese mystery, intrigue and blackmail. Sessue Hayakawa, as the hatchet-man of the tong, in the most exciting and gripping play of his career On Monday next, Norma Talmadge in a, First National Attraction “A Daughter of Two Worlds” will be Pollard’s star offering.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“BEHIND THE DOOR,” FRIDAY

On Friday evening Mr McLean presents a Parmount Special in seven reels entitled “Behind the Door,” produced by an all-star cast, including Jane Novak. The story is as follows: Oscar Krug, a taxidermist, is suspected by his townfolk of being a crook. He vindicates himself by whipping a crowd of his accusers, and then later he is assigned as captain in the merchant marine. After he leaves it develops he had married Alice Morse, a banker’s daughter. She is turned out of home by her father, and having nowhere else to go, boards her husband’s ship disguised as a Red Cross nurse. Their vessel is struck by a torpedo from a submarine and the captain and his wife are for days adrift in a lifeboat. Then a German submarine rises to the surface and they hail it. Krug rows to the J.-boat and assists his wife to the dock. As he plans to follow her his boat is pushed adrift, and with his wife the submarine disappears. Krug later commands a merchant ship that destroys the submarine and captures Brand. Tt is when Brand declares that after Alice had been literally done to death he had shot her body into the sea through the torpedo tube that Krug becomes active. The picture will tell the rest. The serial “Elmo the Fearless” will he continued and the full orchestra will supply the incidental music.