POLLARD'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1922, Page 1

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

GRAND DOUBLE STAR-

THURSDAY

! On Thursday next Pollards arc screening a double star programme ; Anne Luther is featured in a Wisteria i drama of six reels entitled “Neglected j Wives” and Owen Moore is featured in Selznick Drama of five Reels entitled “A Chicken in the Case.” One of the most impressive and absorbing photoplay productions ever shown at the .Princess Theatre is “Neglected Wives” This is a screen adaptation from the j famous melodrama “Why Women Sin” | and features the popular screen star, i Anne Luther, supported by a brilliant cast including such well known favoti- : rites as Claire Whitney. Charles Ger. j ard and E. J. Radcliffe. “Neglected Wives” is a fascinating and absorbing j story of intrigue, love, life and adi venture. As the neglected wife of a ! Wall Street magnate who is so busy making money and helping his friends nominate him for the Governor’s chair j that lie had not the time to treat his | wife and little girl humanly, Anne I Luther is charming indeed. She plays with a sympathy and dignity that bestow ever greater praise on her already famous histrionic abilities. Claire Whitney as the wily villainess and Charles Gerard her partner in crime both imported direct from Paris by the political boss in order to lead the neglected and love-famished wife from the path of righteousness do some notable work. The acting of Owen Moore in the Selznick production “The Chicken in the Case” reveals a cleverly developed gift for the handling of straight farce. The story is full of domestic complications and is a continuous bubble of merriment throughout. The chicken is the mentis to an <*nd being the novel method of a young man of scrapping •an • acCfuairitanae with the charming young lady next door with whom he has fallen violently in love. The fact that he has already borrowed his chum’s wife in order to draw a legacy which he can only obtain when he is married takes a considerable amount of explaining to the girl in question and furnishes plenty of amusement to the onlooker.