AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S FJGTURES. 'WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. On Wednesday ‘‘A Master Stroke”, % Vitagraph production which will lie shown at the Princess Theatre presents Earle Williams in an entirely new role The story deals with financial trouble ’ and the abiding faitli of women. Thin is not n new problem nor is the faith of women a new subject but the treatment is entirely new. In hook form under the title of “The Three Iveys” it had a wide sale and Vitagraph has brought Frederick Day’s story to th screen with all its vital colour and quick action. We have all of us been faced at times with the bottom of our money bag gaping wide open so to speak. We most of ns know what the faith and encouragement of the one woman means at such times. That lithe situation that faces the hero of “A A!aster Stroke.” That is the won derftil lest which the woman who loved | him met. She believed in him against the world and his own guilty conscience Earle "Williams plays the hero with the rare sympathy and understanding tha is so much a part of all bis characterisations. On Thursday Pollards pres-m. “Duly Clare”. It is lilting that the picCufisatioti of Lord Tennyson's famous poem, “Duly Clare,” should be carried out in Eughind by an old Ei;v.list organisation, and the British Ac tor’s photoplay leaves nothing to be d< sired in the way of production. A ; claimed by the press in England as a “triumph of British production’, nr.d ‘a picture that sets a new standard of excellence,’ this adaptation of the fir.c poem is one that should be hailed w:.,h delight everywhere English is spoken Mary Odette is seen in the title iolo and gives a remarkable impersonation of the poet’s wistful heroine. Our old friend Bert, of the “Better ’Ole”. Arthur Cleave is seen as Amos Boulton in •'Lady Clare” and a cast of unparalleled excellence, is in support. Ucaiiti r -<I scenery characterises (lie production throughout.

MODERN DANCING. Tn Conjunction with Pollard's Pictures, on Thursday evening, Mr Pollard will present a special evening’s entertainment to patrons by the two wellknown clever dancers. Air E. Hradc Wauchop and Miss Ruby Wilding in a -cries of dance recitals. Their clever novelty act includes “The "Waltz Caprice,” “Hunting Gallops,” “Eox Trots.” etc. These two favourite metro politnn artists have been engaged to give a series of recitals in Greymoutli ami Hokitika. Patrons arc assured Hurt these artists come with a big reputation.

McLE AM’S PICTURES. THOMAS MEIGIIAN. TO-NIGHT. ; Ah’ AfcLwan presents at tile Princess Theatre to-night a Pnrrynount special, “Conrad in Quest of bis Youth,” star- ! r 'ng Thomas Aleiglian, a romance of j life’s golden adventure. Tile picture is : delightful and not only does the hero again regain the state of being he seeks, hut no spectator who is becoming old can view the picture without feeling younger. The recipe for youth as dis- ■ covered by Conrad is not the fabled j dixar, nor does it lie in physical culture. Thomas Aleiglian is supported by : Margaret Loomis as leading woman, and Ka t lily i) Williams, Sylvia Ashton, Mabel Van Bureii, Bertram John, Ala,vm Kelso, Charles Ogle and other pouhir players, appear in the cast. The" other star feature is “Hitching Posts,” starring Frank Alayo. A gambler, a tiddler and a dog wander from liilehiii’ post to past in the south. There is sudden death, helpless love, reckless advent lire. The story leads from the .Mississippi to the fields far West. It is a story of a man in equal parts, good am] had and therefore human. Of another man all had and therefore inhuman. And there is a girl. That's “II iieliin’ Posts.” Wednesday—K uuiaru. M argucrite Clarke in “A Girl Named Alary.”