AMUSEMENTS.
POLLARD’S PICTURES. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! “Tlie Jack KniTe Man” an unusually novel First National Attraction will lie screened by Pollards at the Princess Theatre to-night. The story of the picture chronicles the doings of a strange colony along the Banks of the Mississippi River, consisting to a. great degree of the owners of dilapidated shanty-boats. The central character is old Peter, a strange chap who ekes out a living whittling spoons and toys from soft pine with his jack-knife.* Into his life comes Buddy, a poor little waif, whom Peter fathers and mothers at the same time. Eventually his family is increased by Boogc, a singing trap. Their efforts to take care of the. orphan lad and keep him out of the hands of a society for finding homes for orphan children, furnishes a story that is full of (piaint humour and 1 pathos. “The Jack-Knife Man'’ is by ! Ellis Parker Butler.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19220720.2.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1922, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
152AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1922, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in