AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE

Marguerite Cnuviv as ''Miyi/' the fourth slater, ui thy romantic Jvuumuiuiui play, ' eleven butert;, id luo tuature ai 10-morrow night a big display by Poll-aid's Pictures at the Optra liouse. "bovei! M.acu.i bus been a huge succeus wherever screened, for apart from itg great merit aa a Famous flayers' production, the tj.cnc.si are laid amid the quaintest a'ud mout beautiful Old World surrounding's ever portrayed. That dainty, charming, versatile little, aitist, Margueine Chirk, give:i a performance that stamps. l her as a real actress. She h pretty; she can smile in more than sixty different ways, and each more charming than the last; slie can give you arch look:;, and convey more meaning with her eye.; than you can find in the Encyclopedia Britanniea. The fmpposis to this star feature are of the best and include a war film that will prove of the greatest i'iiterest to members of the lied Cross and ambulance societies.;. Screened under the title < v f "Wonderful Organisation <f the Iloyal Army Medical Corp:;," this picture shows attending casualties in the living line, and so on through the drcsejng stations; operating rooms; on the barge hospitals; and general hospitals to the convalescent liomcv, in the Mother Country. The full orchestra will perform under Mr. V. Resticnux. On Friday that good actor. 11. H. Warner, will be featured as the liev. Joint Armstrong in a dar. ino' play by the Triangle Kay-Bee Company en the evils of thn trading ui daughters for wealth or social, position, which is frequently called by an uglier word The original title of the picture was 'The Market of Vain Desire.'" A special feature of th<> production is the excellent photography and marvellous lighting effects produced.

TOWN HALL.

'j lie principal feature of Die pio

"'•raimue to be screened at McLiean s

uiuigUt 1. r Die hurt tunc is a btautii'ul hve-ael drama. "'Jewel,'' from the

popular novel ot that title. "Jewci is. UK; :itorv of a beautiful child, who transforms a whole household oi erau Ikkl, sclf-seekhig, mercenary idiots to her own simple, childish creed "of aft'eoti, u and love leaps, a harvc.-t of good from a bleak and barren soil, uniting a divided household, link by link, with a chain of brotherly love. "Jewel." through, the remarkable childlike acting of Ella Hall, briny,; the teat;: constantly to line's eyes. A now Mary Piekforci* photo-drama -may legitimately be described as an event in (he "movies" world, and McLean's Picture Palace management are a tire to reap a rich reward from the screen ing of "Poor Little I'eppina," which is featured in their new bill on Wednesday. Mary Pickford is the heroine ot this h>ng drama, which is presented in a prologue, play, and epilogue- In the tir.it part, Lola, the infant daughter of a wealthy American family living in Italy, is for revenge kidnapped by a discredited butler, wJn> is a member of tho Mafia Secret Socio!v. Fifteen years later Lola is introduced into the story a, Peppina, the daughter of Italian peasants and the sister of Ueppo (Jack Pickford). Peppina id a laborer in the viueyaid, and'is coveted by the padiviio- who controls the estate. She strikes him in the face rtnd with the as-siatanee of lkppo stows away on a liner bound for America. Forced to cane out of hiding ov.in<r to hunger, she enters- the state room of Hugh Carroll, one of the assistant district attorneys of New York, who befriends her. On arrival iihe is smuggled ..ashore by a stoker. jiliid later la Ken to a low drinking saloon, which is conducted xrvy butler who had kidnapped "Lola (Peppina) and escaped to the States. lie is the chief of a gang of counterfeiters-?, and Peppina is made to work as bar-tender, innocently parsing (jor&itorfeit money. She escapes and becomes a messenger "boy," but one day is. recognised by a man upon whom she had passed spurious coin, and is arrested. Al the district attor,. ney'.s office, Carroll recognises the "boy" he had befriended, and a raid on the saloon brings the butler ami his gang into the police net. Peppina « true identity i* disclosed, and she is. restored to her parentis. Three yearn later (the epilogue) Carroll proposes and is, accepted, and here end the adventures of "Poor Little Peppi.ua," who is no longer poor, and who is as charming as only "our Mary" can be.

MINERB' HALL, KUNAMUA. Pollard's Picture,, will present at the Miners' Hall, lUmanga, to-nigut a marvellously strong double-star uill in "Midnight at Maxim's'-' and the charming .star autre.:*,, Marguerite Clark, in ".Seven Sinters-" As "Mien," the fourth sister, Marguerite CUtrx gives a dainty, charming performance that stamps her as. a clever, versatile actrcsvs —an actress; who knows how to smile in sixty different way.-;, and each with a different meani'ag. The .second star picture, "Midnight at Maxim';;," is a picture that shows every dance, revue, parade, Turkey trot, fox trot, and all the fun and life that takes place at New York's maddest yet merriest night eai'e after the clock strikes twelve. The scenes are marvellous color scheme displays, bril. liantly lighted. Superb music by the leading musicians or the day forms a leading item, to which the classic ballets are danced. The whole formi one big scene of Hosts of pretty women, jollity, and an abandon not met with elsewhere.