AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. GRAND ENGLISH PRODUCTION THURSDAY. Pollards are screening a special English Detocftivo Drama on Thursday next at the Princess Theatre entitled “The Wakefield Case’’ and supporting this big attraction is tho latest Gaumont Graphic and a two-reel Christie Comedy “The Reckless Sex.” I/Ondoiij the city of mystery, hiding place for the master criminals of the world. The city which inspired Dickens to write of Fagin, Bill Sykes and the Artful Dhdger. The city where Conan Doyle’s famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, hunted in tho underworld for bizarre and weird adventures The of Scotland Yard and that other equally famous, if not as well-known detective agency, Wakefield's. The firm of Wakefield had but two partners, William akefield and his son Williams ,Tr. known the world over as “Wakefield Sr” and Wakefield Jr.” Both are in London on the trail of the famous Randall ruby, whose disappearance caused an international sensation and baffled the police of two continents, and the exploits of tlic two detectives in running to earth these famous crooks makes one of the most thrilling mystery dramas that lias ever been produced. In “The Wakefield Case,” Herbert Rawlinson is in the leading role.