AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

... POLLARD’S PICTURES.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY

On Wednesday next Pollards are screening the picture version of the celebrated novel “Iv” by Mary Roberts Rinehart, entitled “The Doctor and the Woman.” The drama opens with a fresh, cooling atmosphere hovering about its every scene as registered by Director Weber. The director has kept the interest of high water mark by a cleverly injected suspense element. The audience is expectant, not to lie disappointed. With every scene comes a new interest. There has been no attempt at high flown passages or episodes. Director AVeber has revealed the obvious, the simple little happenings of everyday life iff such a manner as to overcome and discount the old sayings that the obvious is never interesting. She has made it so—the members of the cast have made it so—and the exposition of the Mary Roberts Rinehart’s creation as interpreted by Director Weber and cast, fascinates. The photography is excellent throughout. Some fine lighting has been accomplished by the technical man and the cameraman. The sub-titles are to he commended.

On Thursday Pollards are presenting an all British Harma production entitled “Big Atoney,” starring James Knight. The steadily increasing demand for English pictures it at present being satisfied by the latest productions, which easily come •up to the standard of American films, and the latest one from the Harma studio “Big Money,” in which James Knight plays a most attractive role, is one that will settle any dispute as to the qualities of the American article as compared with the English. The story is bright and entertaining to a degree having novelty of plot, without any of the old stereotyped situations hashed up in new form. Taken from the well known novel, “A Run for his Money,” it lives up to that title, and from start to finish is a continuous source of laughter and thrills. The leading lady is Rose Afanners, a typically beautiful English girl, and the scenes of English and Trish life are the real thing, which cannot be imitated in the States.