McLEAN’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1924, Page 1

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“THE KXUh CHANCE” TO-XICIIT. This evening .McLean’s Pictures present a wonderfully successful .sporting drama “The 100th. Chance”, starring Sydney Seaward. It is a great sporting presentation and tells of a clever trainer, who takes the hundredth chance to win his hridc. The owner of the racing stable Lord Saltasli tries to get the girl and there arises a*vcr.v interesting series of complications around the crippled brother of the gill, ritimately by moans of money supplied by the trainer, ,1. Boulton, the brother is returned to health and there is a very satisfactory finale. The supporting programme includes a comedy, ga. y.ette, and farther chapters of the serial “Tiie Timber Queen.” Episode 0 of the Serial “The Timber Queen” is to band and will positively be shown to-night (Friday), and on Saturday evening.

Oil Saturday night, the star attraction is Viola Dana, in “Blackmail”. “Be a good Crook Flossie” were the dying words of Harry Golden, as daring and skilful a crook a.s ever plied bis trade while posing as a policeman. Flossie Golden promised her dying- father to obey bis holiest. Did she do it? Did she uphold the golden tradition for crime? She hr-s bis love letters and she threatened him with broach of promise proceedings—lie. n very rich young man. And then his lawyer did a very usual .tiling. Tie proposed that his client marry her—on three thousand a year. Flossie was llablierga.sted, but she didn’t show it. On the ollietr hand she made the lawyer fall in love with her, as you will learn when you see Viola Dana, in the role of the silk stockinged crook in “Blackmail". Metro's melodramatic thriller.