POLLARD’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1921, Page 1

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

AMUSEMENTS.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! To-night at the Princess Theatre Pollards are presenting a big logging picture, taken in tho North-west of .America, entitled “Tho Little Boss,” featuring Bessie Love. Bessie Love in “ The Little Boss,” know lots about lumber, but little of love, and she made the almost fatal mistake of believing that a girl must be a “ modern female” to win the man slu> loves. ' So she left her logging camp, and travelled to the city to get the neeesary education and modern views of tilings. All of which did not save her heart and her fortune from becoming shattered, and she came hack to her beloved lumber-jacks a very un-modern little person. Bessie is charming and natural as ever in this clean little story of tho big red woods.

“THE BETRAYER.” On Thursday evening will be presented Mr Beaumont Smith’s latest film production, “The Betrayer,” a romance of New Zealand and Australia. The story is enthralling, and the photography is equal to the world’s bestin kinematographv. It is a Now Zea-land-made film, with tho exception of the section which depicts the Australian incidents of the story. Mr Beaumont .Smith brought a compan, - of prominent Australian artists to Now Zealand, together with his special photographic sin IF, and the company was augmented here by several dominion artists and a number of Maoris. The action takes place in the wonderful thermal regions of the North Island, and the scenery is simply superb. After three weeks the scene changes to sunny Sydney, its benches, the bush, city life, and fashionable dancing‘cafes ; but the film action ends- in New Zealand. The story is interesting and fascinating. It concerns the love of a pnkeha and a Maori maid, and Giva, a beautiful girl who was rescued a» a child from the sea after a wreck, and. grow up to look upon her rescuers "as her own IH'oplc. The romance is most interestingly worked out.