AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1922, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. “CARNIVAL.” TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. “Carnival,” the long awaited International photoplay, which is being shown at the Princess Theatre tonight, is a picture gorgeous in production and beautiful setting. It so outdistances any picture ever made abroad that there is nothing with which to compare it. The picture was made in Venice, the picturesque canals forming no small part in the film’s attraction. The carnival scenes of revelry are truly magnificent and so prolonged that you forget the object ,’f the play almost, the real interest of which is crowded into the last half hour or so of an exhibition that lasts for the better part of two hours. Mr Mntheson Lang, as Silvio litis never done anything finer on either stage or •screen. Applause spontaneously and pr••longed, greets his magnificent portrayal—a thing which rarely happens during the actual screening a photo film, but in tliis instance it is more than justified. Miss Hilda Hailey and the other British members of the cast all acquit themselves perfectly. The prices for this big attraction are circle 2s 2d, stalls -Is 8(1. children downstairs, Gd.