AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

— POLLARD’S rJCTURES. “THK MIDNIGHT BRIDE” TO-NIGHT. Gladys Leslie is particularly .appealing in lrcr role of the heroine in “The Midnight Biunge” her latest Vitagrapli showing at the Princess Theatre to night. Her personality is in keeping with the requirements of the charnctei of the simple country girl who answered the loro of the city with a serious ness horn of ignorance. The girl'i plight a ltd the final clearing of an ugly situation in her favour will prove atractive to any audience hy reason of the strongly human elements of the story, which is clean and unconventional. In addition to being a good clean and interesting story full ol life’s contrasts. tho Vitagraph has made a good choice in selecting Gladys Leslie to portray the heroine,in “The Midnight Brule.” Her work in this role is of the beat she has done, and it is an ardu.-us and exacting character that she has in the role of tho little country girl who was unexpectedly married at midnight .a widow within an hour, and having to light for her good name tooth and nail against, unscrupulous jioliticiaiis .until she found what, she had sought in her first place, real love. Ihe supporting pictures in to-night’s hill of fare are Topical Budget, Ocean Life (Nature Study!, Too Much Ma-in-Lsw (comedy!, and the third chapter of “The Invisible Hand.” PEOPLES PICTURES. DOUBLE STAB PROG I? AM MK TO-NIGHT. A magnificent double star programme will he screened at the Peoples Pictures. Hokitika, to-night. “The Challenge of the Law” brings the wellknown l-'ox star, William Bussell. As Capi. Bruce Cavanaugh, an olfieer ol i lie Royal Northwest Mounted Police, !: • is sent to i-’orf (In'Apnelle to pul a stop to fill’smuggling by a desperate b-.md. Here lie lulls in love with the daughter of a leader of the smugglers.

whom he later fitpturea and condemn* tn ten vears' imprisonment. They g> t'-rough many surprising advi-n'ures, and the climax is as iim-xpe,-te,| ;• it i- exciting. Tin- other stoi n- Louis,l.nvcly in the l-'ox product km, “The Little Gn-y Mouse.’’ The story 'I nls i ■i-i.lentallv'with the tlivoi-ce evil, hut in a delicate maim. r. Mi's Lovely

n-ade an instantaneous hit as a starker wurk being uniformly strung and appealing .-tti.l in this splendid diama upheld- the icputation she ha. so i!„uiiitghly earned. The supports in elude Mutt- and .lull t-arlouti ami Atttralh “News.”