AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. The Opera House having been let for to-night and to-morrow night. the next screening of Pollard’s Pictures will take place on AVednesday evening, when A'ivian Martin, the unique, pretty star will be featured in the big Morosco drama, “The Stronger Love.” The story tells of a sacrifice that few women are called upon to make. Vivian Martin has a girlish beauty that is . a groat asset In the part of Nell Serviss, a wild (lower of the mountains. The drama is interwoven with a charming, and tender love story, and the plot hangs around the advent of a. rich stranger from the city searching for radium but the mountaineers thi"l< that he is in searcli of the moonshiners, who have stills hidden among the hills. A still is accidentally burnt down and this is followed by a succession of thrilling incidents and dramatic situations that lead to a tremendous climax, showing the “love that passctli understanding, v TOAVN HALL. There will be no displays by the Peerless Pictures on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday the dainty dramatic star, Mabel Taliaferro, will appear in the sixact Metro wondeiplay “God’s Half-Acre,” which may he described as something unique in motion pictures. It gives intimate details of two classes of great institutions—homes for the aged and hospitals for crippled children. Contrasted with these pictures of life among the unfortunate are scenes of wealth and distinction. The opening performance of a great play is depicted and the notables responsible for its success are shown. In these widely different strata of society Henry Norman the novelist, finds the material for his hooks, hut the most fascinating of all his types is Blossom, the little maid of all work at Rainbow’s End, the home for the aged. Quiet and demure hevond her years, he calls Tier “Tim Little Old Young Lady.” While Norman is studying unusual types, his wife, finding time hanging heavy on her hands, elopes with his false friend. Blossom, having innocently given Henry her heart, supposing him unmarried, leaves Rainbow’s End in confusion and also to escape the wrath of the matron, known as “The Dragon.” who has hoped to capture Norman herself. 1 low the novelist and his “Little Old Young Lady” find each other again through a. deed of mercy on the -part of Blossom is sympathetically told in “God’s Half Acre,” a powerful story in which boats the pulse of humanity.' As a romance it possesses the qualities of novelty, pathos, and supreme tenderness in a degree which sets it above and apart from the common run of highclass screen dromas. I ho I'ox Go. will present Win. Earniim in “Fighting Blood.” A feature of the evening will he the first screening in Greymouth of Fox comedies when Charles Arlington will star in the two-reel success. “Social Pirates.” Commencing on Wednesday, the management will reverb to 0 o’clock as the starting time for their week-night displays. OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT, “Where Are My Children?” the picture of the hour, will he shown at the Opera House for the last time to-night. The film is so popular that it seems quite safe to predict a bumper attendance. “Where Are My Children?” is not “a mere picture”—it is more. It is a valuable lesson, in sociology that should he seen and digested by every right-think-ing person in the community; subject, of course to the censor’s restriction that exhibitions should he given only in the presence of those over the ago of 18 years.. The story, as earnestly and discreetly presented by Tyrone Power and other sterling players, is pregnant with meaning and food for thought. The daring subject is handled with rare skill. Its shafts of censure levelled at the pleasure-loving women of America—and

there are offenders elsewhere—who wickedly reject the honor of motherhood, fly to the mark straight as arrows from a how and hit their objective with a force that is calculated to make the most callous pause and think. Notwithstanding this directness, indelicacy has no place in the presentation. “\\here Are My Children?” is a picture that counts. The box plans are open at the Bristol. The picture will he shown at Runanga 10-morrow night. By arrangement with E, J. Carroll, Pollard's will screen the, 16th episode of “Gloria’s Romance, “A Modem Pirate,” in conjunction with “Where Are Afv Children?”