AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

A DRAMA OP WOMAN.

INTr Tom Pollard takes-great pleasure in announcing the screening on next Monday evenng—at tlie Princess Theatre of “iran-AVoman-Marriage” the biggest picture of the year, and the drama eternal depicting woman throughout the ages. In scope of achievement and richness of presentnton it sets new standards. Tn theme of universal appea-l it 'reveals the changing spheres she has occupied since tho dawn of history. Tts magnificent sweep crystallises the story of Woman from the cave period* to to-day. Its dominant note is faith. Faith on the part of Woman that right must conquer might. That love will find a way to overcome the malignant forces which have rohhed her of the rewards of her love, devotion and striving for the better things of life. Tt- shows how in the eruicihle of time Woman has worked out her own salvation. Tt traces tho ascendancy of the sex through the opalescent haze of mythology, down through the centuries to the present. It depicts courtship, marriage, and the fiery furnaces of inevitable misunderstandings which occur when wealth, power and alienation estrange tho man from his life partner. Woman. Throughout the story of tho ages, the same principals. Dorothy Phillips and •Tames Kirkwood, assisted hv a cast that runs into thousands, play the parts of lovers, husband- and wife.