AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

— POLLARD’S PICTURES.

“THE PREY” TO-NIGHT

In “The Prey,” an Alice Joyce special production, unusual opportunities are offered the popular star to utilise her talent, her charm, her fascinating facility of expressing emotions in graphic manner, to the greatest possible, advantage. In the course of the emotional picture story, Helen Reardon is forced by circumstances to realise that etiher her idolized father or her beloved fiancee is a person unworthy of respect;' to feel that her lover is grossly ungrateful ; to learn that her brother is in disgrace and danger of prison; to consent to a marriage exceedingly distasteful to her; to be filled with loathing for her licentious husband; to learn that, her true lover’s devotion to her and led him to permit her to misjudge him ; and in the end she finds happiness after all. As Helen Reardon, the prey, Alice Joyce runs the gamut of emotions, j making th 0 play one of the most notable productions of its type. A Gaumont Graphic, ft Ppthe Review, and a Snub Pollard cpmedy, entitled “Start the Show” will also be screened.

On Thursday Pollards are presenting a grand double star programme including a British and Continental Drama “The Fire of Youth” starring Ruth Clifford and a Robinson ,Cole Production “Man’s Desire” starring

Lewis Stone. It {s a drama of the higwoods lumber timber, packed with tense action and the thrill of primitive life. Tho play moves rapidly, the action has punch and smash in every foot of film, while the primitive characters and bigtimber scenes are graphically portrayed. Lewis S. Stono is a manly type as

Tom Denton. Jane Novak plays oppos- ! ite Stone in a role that fits her admirably in its pathetic appeal.