AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

On next AYedncsdify (to-morrow eveninf?) Pollards present at the Princess Theatre the super I?allies picture, "It Can He Done,” starring Earle Williams in one of his best characters. The plot centres around the fact that even though an author writes improbable and almost impossible stories it is impossible to live a story just as it is ' written. To this end, Earle Williams ■ as Austin Crane, author of a number of i super “Raffles” stories writes a narra- , live in detail and then sets about to guide the destinies of fate so that every character in that story, even him--1 self, will automatically do the things | he has planned and say the lines he has i put into their mouths. The story is 'one that will hold the interest and ’ satisfy the spectator. It does not • dei pend upon spectacular scenes or thrills for its success, hut holds tliis attention i through a series of surprises 'and almost hopeless tangles into which the ! hero is plunged in bis effort to livo a story he has written. There is a clean, wholesome love story interwoven in the plot which at times assumes the proportions of a detective story and then branches off into a sort of super “Raffles” affair with a happy ending.^ On Thursday evening “Passers By,” a special Pathe feature starring Herbert Rawlinson in a quaint, homely, heart gripping story that will appeal to all is to he screened. The story is by C. TTaddon Chambers and is taken from the play of the same name, which lias had most successful seasons wherever it has been played. It is the story of a man who wished to marry a girl below his own social standing, hut through the wishes of an interfering sister the lovers were parted. The end of the story is appealing, and furnishes an entertainment that is pleasing. [ MCLEAN'S PICTURES. HOCKEY BENEFIT—TO-NIGHT. 1 For the Ladies Hockey Club Benefit entertainment to-night, given hv Mr j H. McLean in the Princess Theatre, the star feature is “Gilded Lies”, a Selznick picture starring Eugene O’ Bripjr and Martha Mansfield. Keene McCoinb came out of the west, to find this man threatening the woman he loved then he whipped him like a dog. The serial “The Branded Four” and a Selznick gazette complete a fine programme. |