AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT 1

TO-NIGHT!

This evening a huge programme of drama and up-to-date comedy will he screened, when “The Resident Patient” from Sir Conan Doyle’s famous stories 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. Tile most famous detective stories ever written are those of Sir Conan Doyle and in producing the stories for the screen the Stoll British Coinjhiny have made one of the finest series of features that have ever been produced. The first of these features is entitled* ‘The Resident Patient” with Eille Norwood in the role of Sherlock Holmes. “Married Life” is the biggest comedy feature that has ever been screened. It 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 of the funniest sights ever scon, being a farcical football match in which Bon performs some tricks that would cause all the present existing ltughy rules to he, to say the least of it, revised. This feature is one that provides good clean entertainment that will he appreciated by young and old alike.

! CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND “ THE KID.”

! At the Princess Theatre on next Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Charlie Chaplin’s new film “The Kid,” advertised as First National's six-reel of joy, will he sereeiied. The picture, as it unfolds, contains more real heartthrobs than many a picture that has built up reputations for emotional actresses. Charlie is himself, hut he has injected himself into a story of heart interest that has seldom been equalled. It stmts with the abandonment of her baby by the woman who has Ik’oii wronged. Charlie finds the baby and raises him to boyhood. The typical Chaplinesqnc methods of raising the Kid are responsible for a good part of the humour with which the piece abounds, white bis pitiable whimsical procedure to gain the child’s love dampened many an eye. The dramatic climax of the film comes with Chaplin's losing fight, and the Kid’s despair when the law separates them, hut this is followed so closely by a hit of comedy which, perhaps, is tlie’best of the piece, in which Charlie rescues him after a chase over root tops, that people laughed the lumps right out of their throats, ft you love coinedv you cannot alford to miss seeing “ The Kid,’ and if you enjoy being held enthralled in the grip of pathos there is a treat awaiting after you get into the "theatre where 'it is showing. The prices of admission arc, dress circle 2s, stalls Is, plus tax, with box plan at Mclntosh’s confectioner.