AMUSEMENTS.
POLLARD'S PICTURES.
ALICE JOYCE WEDNESDAY
Alice Joyce essays an entirely new and charming role “The Prey” th e fascinating screen play which is to be shown at the Princess Theatre on Wednesday. In this Vitagraph special Alice Joyce production she takes the part of a girl whose father and brother are daring and losing gamblers. She does not know how badly involved they are, and when a young attorney who is in love with her refuses to help her father out of a hole by aiding in an unscrupulous scheme, she rejects her suit. Her father’s suicide is one of the consequences of his refusal, and she is forced into
a hateful marriage to the man who holds a financial whip OC'er her relatives. Just how she is freed is told in a fascinating wa.y m the play. Miss Joyce, as the girl dealt with so unkindly by fate, gives an amazingly varied and interesting portrait in which are highlights of tremendous emotional power and dramatic truth. A Gaumont Graphic, a Pa,the Beview. and a Snub Pollard comedy entitled “Start the Show” will also be shown. On Thursday Pollards are screening another double feature programme headed by a Robinson Col p production in five acts entitled “Man’s Desire” starring Lewis Stone and a special British and Continental picture “Fires of Youth” starring Ruth Clifford also in five reels.
McLEAN'S PICTURES,
“TWO WISE WIVES,”-TO-NIGHT
Mr McLean presents at the Princess Theatre to-night a fine programme headed by a (5-reel Lois Weber production “Two Wise Wives.” It is a tale of two wives who thought they knew tilings that they didn’t. A tale of two husbands who didn’t know things they should. One wife was sure that lie,- husband was faithless. She knew better later. One husband was sure that his wife was all that a woman should be. He never knew better. An intimate story of every-day life, in a drama such as comes onl v once in a decade.
The supporting features include a Burton Holmes Travelogue. Australian Gazette, and Paramount Magazine.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1922, Page 1
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