AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

• OPERA HOUSE. The new programme of Pollard’s Pic. turns screened last night received a hearty welcome from me large audience present. The two episodes of “The Million Dollar Mystery" were more than usually exciting, while the balance of a well-selected bill was of the high standard associated with this popular picture resort. This excellent bill of fare will be repeated again tonight. Another great star exclusive has been secured, and it will form the ■ principal feature of to-morrow night’s specially selected Sunday programme. This big film is a four-act Mutual masterpiece entitled “Up from the Depths” and it handles the question of, “Why should the woman pay, and the man go free?” in a vivid and realistic manner, the message it carries going straight to the heart, sending everyone home thinking. It has that vital grip on the human sympathies which is the keynote of success in the photodramatic art. One critic described it as “a big human document, torn from the diary of a woman’s, heart.” The supporting pictures are a new Australian Gazette, an Edison drama, “Waifs of the Sea,” and a. scenic study of “Bothaland, South Africa.” Monday night has been set aside for Pollard’s twenty-fifth patriotic benefit. A new programme of the latest picture successes will be submitted, and the gross receipts, without any deducti m whatever, will be banded over to the patriotic fund.

TOWN HALL. The present bill, which is headed by that excellent drama “The Trumpet Call,” along with its well-varied supports, will be screened to-night for the last time. A display unrivalled for excellence will be presented on Sunday night, the chief feature of which is a brilliant, soul-inspiring five-part drama, “The Path Forbidden,” which features Octavia Handworth., The story is of a family all of whom unfortunately take the wrong path. The )vorst error is committed by the daughter Pearl, who flees from her intended husband on the morning of the day upon which it was agreed the wedding should be solemnised. Pearl is accompanied by quite an undesirable male companion. In a moment of anguish the intended husband pursues his missing bride, and locates her. She refuses to see him, and the pretending husband is subjected to the ignomy of exposure. The jilted man becomes somewhat infatuated when the lady clerk is kidnapped who bears a striking resemblance to Pearl. From then onwards he is the victim of no end of villainy from the pretender, for whose exposure he was responsible. A thrilling scene is enacted when the lady clerk is kidnapped by a party of motor bandits. The hero’s chase after them per motor cycle entails an unusual amount of risk, and one is breathless at his death-daring leap from the cycle to the car, both machines being in motion. A delightful finish marks the play, the humorous interludes of which are afforded by the scenes of tire barn dance and calico hop,, held in Stevens’ barn, for which all and sundrv spruce up to take their girls. An all-new bilk and complete orchestra will assist. The picture will onlv he shown on Sunday, as in response to innumerable requests Pobert Warwick’s latest success. “The Man of fhc Hour.” will be shown on Monday.

MANDL’S HALL, BLACKBALL. Opie Read’s famous story, “A Yankee from the West,” is the star feature of to-night’s new programme of Pollard's Pictures. A strong series of new subjects will support, this stirring American mining story. The twentieth and twenty-first chapters of "The Million Dollar Mystery” will he the features of to-morrow night’s all-new programme. The first episode is entitled “The Secret Warning” and it shows how Jones is. warned of the arrival in America of the Russian Minister who is searching for the Black Hundred.” - The other chapter is “The Documents in the Treasure Box,” showing how they are removed by an unknown hand. Another feature in the bill is a Lubin drama, with the strange title of “Think, Mothers.” It is the story of a. mother forcing her daughter to marry the other man, and should be seen by every woman, as it carries a powerful lesson and shows in a. vivid manner the misery of an unhappy marriage. The supporting pictures are an Edison falntasy, “The Night Before Christmas,” a. new Pa the Gazette, and the comedies, “Snowball” and “Cutting Down Expenses.”