AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

I). W. GRIFFITH'S LATEST PRODU'KTION, MONDAY.

On Monday next Pollards will screen 1). \Y. (.iriflith’s latest picture, “The Idol Dancer,” an exotic story of, and laid in the South Sea islands. Me has created another instantaneous success. He has again twanged upon the harp of life with his master touch, and produced from the sunny surroundings of the islands a poem of beauty and grace. That this picture nearly cost the lives of director and company, when they were proceeding to the Islands, has not detracted from the value of the picture in one iota. Clarine Sevmoui as the idol dancer, is wistlully lovely, pto voacinglv graetul, a thing of beauty ainl a joy for ever. Dick Mnrtkolmcss giw, us some won dor I ill acting in the iolc o, the heaclicomber, and that old favourite Greighton Hale, is seen in a charmnt-. role of a young man, nephew of the missionary, who has gone to the tropic.for health, and dies happily, lighting the black-birders. A wonderful love story amid romantic surroundings, and no t loss wonderful regeneration of a wreck of a man, are unfolded in a scries of the scenes of poetic boatuy. Tlie supporting pictures include the latest Pal he Gazette and a two reel comedy entitled “Four Times Foiled.^