AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PSGTURES. a Bicj juutish production WEDNESDAY.

Violet Hopson may cosily lay claim to being the* queen of the English cinema ; there is no star more popular than this typical English beauty. Her latest British feature is “The Woman Wins” from the !> road west studio, and in it Miss Hopson does some ot the I;nest work it has been our good fortune to witness in an English production. “The Wtnnan Wins’’ deals with the attempts of an unscrupulous gang to destroy the happiness of an innocent girl, auoil send an innocent man to penal servitude. Tn the end. as ever will la* the ease, “The Woman Wins.’' A Topical ltudget. a scenic and an educational v ill also he show n. On Thursday H. K. I incoln. the dis. tin oiished romnnti** screen actor, will anpear in the Pat he super production of “The Tuner Voiced’ (Vilies con sid'*r it to be bijli among the lonlly notable productions of The story which it tells is said to lie a powerful dramatic recital of a man who gave unselfishly the best that was in him to th 0 world, and in return was overwhelmed with t eacherv. unfaithfulness and disgrace. With his soul embittered against his fellow men. he struggled upward oui of th ( > depths, resolved to face the world again and demand restitution. Mr Lincoln, who does the finest work of his screen career in this picture, is -supported bv a very large and t.apable cast of well-known players. ••hi- li includes Agnes Avivs, William Uilcv Hatcl*. and Fuller Mellisb.

McLEAH'S PICTURES. “lIKI.TOTROPE” TO-XHMIT. 'rile big attraction at, the Princess Theatre to-night is the Paramount Doyalty-Masterpiejc. “1 heliotrope. •’ the screen’s greatest story. The picture unfolds a vigorous thrilling rinry of father-love and the sacritiee made by a regenerated convict, to savi* the haepiness of liH daii'ditcr. “Heliotroj’e Harry.” so railed because of his fondness for the scent of heliotrope. H serving a life sentence in a penitentiary. I .earning from a pal that, hi* daughter, \\ ho believes herself an orphan. is about to he married to a rich voiium man. and that, his unscrupulous wife R planning to blackmail the happy pair. “Heliotrope” pleads bis release from prison in protect his daughter. It is finally granted, on

condition that no harm befall his wife at his bands. The ox-convict* embarks upon a sinew<l scheme of intimidation that soon lias the adventuress shrinking with terror and at bis mercy. Then by a final heroic act. forever eliminate* the wicked woman from being a sinister menace to bis daughter’s happiness. flow this is accomplished makes one of the greatest thrills ever shown on the screen. A two-reel Mack Sennet t comedy “Her Plighted Lover” w ill also he shown.