AMUSEMENTS.
POLLARD’S PICTURES. DOUBLE STAR, PROGRAMME, MONDAY.
On Monday next Pollards are presenting a big double star programme. Olive Thomas will be seen in a five reel comedy drama entitled “Upstairs and Down,” a Selznick production. You’ll see the beautiful “Harrison-Fisher” girl and’famous Ziegfeld Follies beauty as the darlingest little baby vamp that ever turned loose a battery of stunning eyes on a mere male. Alice Joyce is seen at her best in the spectacular Drury Lane melodrama, “The Sporting Duchess,” adapted to the screen at a cost of 200,000 dollars. The sporting duchess was sporting, but not sporty. Women envied her beauty and ~social position; men begrudged her husband’s possession of her love. Between them they sought her downfall. Although guiltless, she was divorced. Her child was taken from her. Her fortune was lost. Then she sacrificed her jewels to hid in “Comet,” the Duke’s thoroughbred, when lie was put up at auction. The big, thrilling racing scene is a big part of the story, and a glorious section of the picture. Miss Joyce lias had many roles in her glorious screen career, but it is doubtful if any ever equalled that of the Duchess of Desborough in this incomparable production. The greatest race that ever happened has been perpetuated on the screen. Tt will Ik* run over and over again before the straining eyes of millions in the screen version of this famous Drury Lane melodrama, “The Sporting Duchess.” The plunging hooves of blooded animals, and the craning necks of blooded aristocrats and the sidelong, lurking gaze of plotting conspirators and the prayers of frightened souls all hanging on the turn of fate that lies in the hearts of those tearing animals—all form a brew of drama in this masterpiece of the screen. Alice Joyce playing the title role, is queenly. This is a film that will make one’s blood seethe.
Coming Wednesday next “Ruling Passions,” starring Julia Dean and Edward Arden, a brilliant photodrama of the human emotions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1921, Page 1
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331AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1921, Page 1
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