AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

| POLLARD’S PICTURES.

j On Monday night a huge programme of drama and up-to-dato comedy will be screened, when “The Resident Patient from Sir Conan Doyle’s famous stones an all-British production, and “Married Life,” a Mack Sennett five-reel super-comedy starring Ben Turpin, combine to form a most attractive picture display. The most famous detectivo stories ever written are those- of Sir Conan Doyle, and in producing the stories for the screen the Stoll British Company have madg one of the finest series of features that have ever been produced. The first of these features is entitled’ ‘The Resident Patient” with Kille Norwood in the role of Sherlock Holmes. “Married Life” is the biggest comedy feature that has ever been screened. ft is a Mack Sennett with that king of fun Ben Turpin, in the leading role. Never before has the man with the extraordinary optics so excelled himself in comedy. The picture is one big laugh from beginning to end, one oAlic funniest sights ever seen, being a farcical football match in which lien performs some tricks that would cause all the present existing Rugby rules to he, to say the least of it, revised. This feature is 0110 that provides good clean entertainment that will he. appreciated by young and old alike.