FARLAND'S PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 29 January 1919, Page 3

FARLAND'S PICTURES.

"JACK AND JUiL." To-morrow night's star film should be well received, especially as it features r Jack Pickford aud Louise Huff, two high-class artists. A box office view of : the picture is as follows, aud speaks for itself:—When the girl in the ticketbox gets nervy, and goes home, looking tired and weary, you can bank, on it that the proprietor,is wearing a broad smile and lighting another cigar. Anyhow, this is what happens when "Jack and Jill" is screened. The public love a fighting man, and Jack Pickford, as the plucky lightweight, boastful, but ' brave, gives you those little cold shivers up the back of your spine that make you glad you paid your money tosec the show. There is no expression of astonishment when Jack falls in love with Jill, for most of the men in the house have done so already. The youngest member of the talented Pickford family, Jack Pickford has successfully overcome the terrific habit of having one world-famed sifcter, and another well known as a screen star. This love story of two New York city waifs, one a second-Tate prize fighter, and the other a maker of imitation flowers, grips the heart with its directness, and makes you to feel the primitive instinct arise, when the sturdy lightweight mixes it with his massive, sturdy opponent. Those New York street expressions would make "one of the mob" feel like an apprentice, in the language distorting art, but their directness and their aptness are most appealing, and have a charm quite apart. The underworld passions conic nearest the primitive. Devoid of all subterfuge, and free from all convcrftions, the love stoiy of these two submerged reaches ' deep down, and touches the heart strings with its deadly earnestness.'