AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

[ —~ - ■•vwr*POLLARDS PICTURES. CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG, MONDAY. On viewing Clara Kimball Young’s latest photoplay, one is irresistibly compelled to conclude that the supreme reign of the motion picture is hero to stay. When a production like “MidChannel” appears, and not only reproduces with striking faithfulness the original force of the stage play, hut actually improves and heightens the effect of this dramatic masterpiece with gorgeous setting, elaborate scenic effects, dazzling costumes and a panorama of colourful environment, then our recognition of the finer sort of pictures is even greater than that accorded to stage plays. The triumph of Clara Kimball Young with this latest vehicle is so certain that it can be safely predicted that the pieturisation of “MidChannel” will create nothing short of a sensation. For no more intimate theme could have been chosen at this time than "that of this production. It deals with the throbbing problems of a young married couple—every young married couple, in fact—and strikes a sympathetic chord in every human heart. The situations it depicts are such as every lover and every married person lias experienced and struggled with. The temptations are wonderfully true to life, and the entire treatment of the pltty will etulear it to the memory of every human being. A Bathe Gazette and a Christie comedy “Uaclv from the front,” supports this big attraction on Monday, and Pollard’s Symphony Orchestra will render a new programme.