AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. GRAND HOLIDAY PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. At the Princess Theatre to-night Pollards are presenting a special holiday programme, when the popular Frank Keenan will be seen in a big Pa the production, “The World Aflame.’' The picture deals with a vital question the world over at the present moment, viz. Capital and Labour. Mr Frank Keenan made a speech at the recent convention of motion picture exhibitors in St Louis, in the course of which, reviewing busii>ess conditions, he referred to the profit sharing system as one of tlie panaceas to be applied to certain sore spots. This same thought, in so many words, was echoed several days latter in an address by Samuel Gompers —the keynote which vitally thrills. “The World Aflame” deals with that one touch of humanity which makes the whole world akin, which reached into the palaces of the migh'ty and the hovels of the misled poor —administered by a wise mayor who had studied human nature, who knew when to apply reasonable and sensible force, and when to preach the gospel of reason and cooperation and profit sharing. He broke a strike, but not the strikers —he deported the Bolshevist strike makers and gave labour a sample of true leadership—and pointed out the path of true happiness to capital and labour alike. It is just the sort of part that has made Keenan foremost of character actors, potent and alluring to all men and women. It is a “square deal’ play, with such an ending as the master thinkers of the world to-day are picturing as the only solution for the political and industrial unrest of to-day. On Thursday Pollard’s star attraction is a Robinson Cole production, “The House of Intrigue,” starring the English actress, Peggy May, a Co-op. Weekly (topical), “When the Wind Blows” (comedy); and scenes around San Diego (scenic).