AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

A GREAT PROGRAMME,

To-niglit in tlio Princess Theatre, Pollards will present the greatest of great James Oliver Cur wood’s stories, “Jsobel,”' or the “Trail’s End,” and the latest and best of Mermaid Comedies, “Holy Smoke.” A screen play adapted from a, James Oliver Cunvood story has never failed to be rich in entertainment values. Of all his plays

which have reached the silver sheet none have come to it with the breadth, the humanities, the realities of “Isobcl,” or “The. Trail’s End.” House Peters and Jane Novak are the featured players in an all-star cast. “Isabel” has a power, a grip, a, spiritual note and lifelike dimensions which arc caught In the spectator, so much so that one forgets the lapse of timeforgets tbe environment and is truly transported to the Hudson Bay district itself. As gripping as its story which builds evenly and surely to powerful climaxes—climaxes which contain twists a.nd surprises and keep one guessing at the outcome—it is the manner it has collected a marvellous array of backgrounds, and through the use of the new prismatic colouring that some of the scones are a. blaze of colour. Mermaid comedies have been made famous and tbe second series “Holy Smoke” to be screened tonight is equal to the best.”