AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

POLLARD’S TJCTURES. MONDAY.

Tho Vitagrnpli Super Feature “Trumpet Island’ which cost the ' it s*graph Coy 'ioO.OOOdol. to produce will ho the special attraction at the Princess Theatre on Monday next. The story is a Couverneur Morris romance which is sullicient to stamp it with a certain originality and charm, and tinscenario and titles are hy Mr and Mrs (icorue Randolph Chester, which is something of a guarantee of quality. ,\ young girl, convent reared, falls in lore with a soldier boy back from the wa>-«. Her father decrees, however, that she shall marry one of those withered rotas of the drama who can bring her wealth hut no love. The soldier hoy acquires sudden wealth and loses his head, ami then seeks to recover his equilibrium by going to live on that- good old abandoned island of the movie seas. The girl, dutifully agreeing to marry the imue on promise of being taken in an airplane on her wedding tour. from which she expects to dash herself to death, is eventually dropped at the I,Civ’s feet on “Trumpet Island.” her memory gone hut her sweet niiraeulonsly preserved. Together the youngsters live through several happy weeks and then they are found and threatened with a- separation that you very well know never takes place. A big pietur in the true sense, and an interesting picture, rich ill adventure, not too extravacantly illogical and pictoriall.v aircsting. Marguerite de la Motto is an attractive heroine, Wallace MacDonald a plnusable and likeable kero. The Infest, Gazette and a big comedy will also he included in this big hoiida;> programme.