AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1921, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PJCtOR£§. “LADY AUDREY'S SECRET" TONIGHT. ' Pollards are presenting to-night a jbig British production “Lady Audley’s Secret" adapted from tlie world-famous novel by Miss R. Braddon starring Margaret. Ba.nnorman supported hy a strong caste of all British placers. It is hardly necessary to emphasise the remark able fascination which Missf Braddon’s novel has exercised for years on readers all over the world, and still continues to exert. Years ago “Lady Audlev’s Secret” was known to have sold a million copies. What the total sales from the start to this day have been, nobody knows. Countless editions of the hook wore published in America'' for which the authoress never received a single penny. There is no space to enter here into the reasons for the phenomenal success of

“Lady Audley’s Secret." lmt it may he stated that part of its popularity was due to the fact that the heroine was the finest sinner of the kind who had worn the conventinnat livery of wickedness. Until this store was written. the villainoss of fiction was always dark-haired, black-browed and vaninire--1 ike. Miss Braddon mode her villainess a blonde and gave her a charming and graceful aspect, so that she won the world’s heart, for all her infamy. Bur bovond any surface novelty of this kind lav the more powerful reason (ha 1 the authoress in her story discarded all the conventional tricks and machinery of lales of mystery and in (jiiito ordinary surroundings and among the sort of people one might meet any day evoked ldventnre. romance, mystery, and excitement. The production that van must not. miss! Further chapters of the serial “The Invisible Hand” will also ho shown. On Thursday a Robinson Cole pr>diietion “The Turn of the Road” five reels with an aM-star caste. “The Torn in the Road” is a picture which is bound to create wide discussion among the people who. see it. Tt is built around a theme of universal appeal and one which people love to discuss. During its eight weeks’ run at Quinns’ Rialto Theatre in Los Angeles, an tin us”al contest was conducted hy the theatre to stimulate interest in the i'!*"!". Piir.es of .VNltil. 3l'rp.l and ‘.’"del nor- offered In the Theatre In the three best answers to this l ipiestinn. Wluii does the public soo in “The Turn iu the Road" answers a great life question ?"