AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

POLLARDS PICTURES. “Tl»j STORY 0/ THE ROSARY” TO-NIGHT.

Tq-night Pollards are presenting a magnificent English production jyitli an all-star paste beaded by Malvina Longfellow in ‘‘The Story of the Rosary ’ from the 'famous play hy 'Walter Howard. The Pearl Rosary of the story her hnatty happy associations, and always dinging 1 about it are the words of the song which the Mother Superior sang to her own organ accompaniment : ‘'Thei hours I spent with, thee, dear heart, Are as a string of pearls to me. I count them over, every one apart My Rosary!” A Ganmoht Graphic; ‘‘Her Rube” Christie Comedy two rods. and a Rathe Review will also be screened On Thursday Pollards are presenting a grand double Australian programme. Snowy Baker is featured in a. five-reel drama entitled “The Jackeroo of Coolobong” and) Tal Ordell who will be remembered for the part he played in Our i Selection in an Australian comedy. “Cows and Cuddles.” The casual photo play-goer rarely, if ever, stops to consider the difficulties that confront the producer in getting the effect that so delights the eye and enhances the senses. In the E. J. and Dm Carroll’s Australia superfeature “The Jackaroo of Coolabong” which deals with the doings of a ‘new chum,’ the scenario writer included in his script an aboriginal camp scene with scores of aboriginals—walr paint and everything. The native race is fast dying out in Australia' and the black is a difficult person to induce into the limelight. However, movie directors seem to have n. penchan ‘for making babies in arms, cats, dogs and birds act in pictures like adult humans, it probably explains bow a whole tribe of Aboriginies came to appear for the first time in a. photoplay. The company had to travel many miles inland to secure this novel feature of the film.