AMUSEMENTS.
POLLARD’S PICTURES.
“THE FORTUNE HUNTER” AND “THE IMP,” TO-NIGHT. GRAND DOUBLE PROGRAMME. To-night the ladies’ favourite screen actor Earle Williams, will be seen in the Vitagraph’s latest and best comedy drama entitled “The Fortune Hunter.” A play for head and heart —“The Fortune Hunter” is both beverage and tonic. While it pleases the palate ns rare entertainment it will inspire the soul with a hew birth of optimism. The stage production achieved a memorable and record-breaking success —the delightful photoplay production will gather a new harvest of popularity, and sow broadcast, anew, its laughs and logic. The story in itself is one of absorbing interest. It is the type that is ever popular with old and young because- it idealises youthful aspirations and achievement. “The Fortune Hunter”- is human nature laid bare; it is a throbbing page from real life—the life that all of us lead, but that many of us never see below the surface. And—it’s a powerful love story as well as a clarion call to all men whose brains have become lulled to sleep. The laggard, the failure, the ne’er-do-weel still hoping for success, will find in this picture a needed inspiration—it carries a clear, strong, message of hope. He’d started out after the fortune—then when almost within his grasp he found it wasn’t worth it—he wanted what he couldn’t get—that crying need that all of us know so well. The second star will be “The Imp,” featuring Elsie Janis, the Selyznick popular star. A picture marked by the censor as specially for adults. Coming Wednesday next, “The Arizona Cat Claw,” starring Edythe Sterl-
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1921, Page 1
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268AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1921, Page 1
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