AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

To-night Pollards are screening a special picture taken from one of Louis Joseph Vance’s popular novels entitled “The Band Box.” Louis Joseph Vance is the world's foremost author of adventurous mystery melodrama. “The Lono Wolf,” “False Faces,” “The Lone Wolf’s Daughter,” “The Destroying Angel,” are only a few of his successes, and last, but not least, “The Bandbox.” Doris Kenyon, young, beautiful, popular and talented. If she had never before dono a screen production, this one would establish her popularity with the screen’s millions. Here are combined the genuis of an author and the talents and beauty of a star. Melodrama with the right kind of love story, with suspense, action mystery and tenseness, is always popular. Only tho most ‘skilled authors, players and directors know the magic mixture of tho right kind of melodrama. “The Bandbox” is fast, rushing, thrilling melodrama at its finest and best. A priceless collar of pearls with soft flesh tints like the skin of a beautiful woman. The famous Cadogan collar. Smuggled into America-—and stolen. Two swift, mysterious little men—alike to tho fraction of an inch; to tho twitch of an eyebrow. William 11. Iff, the suspect, and Ismay the thief. Alison Landis, a beautiful actress and smuggler. Eleanor Searle, a singer and unintentional accomplice—younger and even more beautiful. Two lovers, a playwright and wealthy idler; a manager, Customs officers; an island hiding place; baffling, mixed identities. And two pink and white striped bandboxes containing Parisian creations, in the lining of one of which rested trouble and happiness.” Coming Monday: Earle Williams in “The Fortune Hunter.”

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

UNIVERSAL STAR, FRIDAY

On Friday evening Mr McLean presents one of the very latest successes, a Universal drama entitled “Everything hut tho Truth,” starring Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran of “La, La, Lucille” fame. In “Everything hut tho Truth” two couples, one of them married, and the other nearly so, get into what seems to be a terrible mix-up when an escaped lunatic imprisons the young wife and the prospective bridegroom, all night in a deserted farm house. The jealous fiancee and the irate husband make things interesting and amusing for everyone. Full of most attractive and exciting situations, it must he seen to he enjoyed. Tn addition there will he further chapters of the attractive serial “Elmo the Fearless,” while the full orchestra will supply a musical programme that will give great pleasure to patrons.