AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

“THE BLACK PANTHER’S CUB,’ MONDAY. .

Florence Peed in “The Blnek Pantlier’s Cub” is billed at the Princess Theatre on Monday as the star a.ttractio«, is seen in the most notable production of her stage career. As the story of “The Black Panther’s Cub” opens Miss Reed is seen as “Faustine” known as the “Black Panther,” and keeper of the most notorious gambling palaces in Paris. She is the shrewd temptress, the cold and ca'culat.ng beauty who has all Paris at her feet. Many notables and nobles seek in vain for her love. As the story progresses, there is an allegorical flash of Swinburne’s Faustine the Empress, whose thumb is ever turned down on tbe unfortunates of tbe gladiatorial ling. It is this “Faustine” that the “Black Panther” is said to resemble, and it is because of her unrelenting greed for gold and the attention of men, that she has been so named. In the role of the once beautiful “Faustine,” now a grey and wrinkled old woman. lut whose heart still burns with a passion for greed, Miss Reed does some of the most wonderful acting of her long -and successful career. The supporting pictures tire the latest Pa the Gazette rnd a two-reel Bathe Comedy “The Bike Bug” is a wonderful comic, deserving of. special mention, and it lias a sly reference to New Zealand.