AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1918, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. "The King is dead, long live the King" is the manner in which the management of Pollard's pictures presage the advent of th e screening to-night at the Opera. House of "Triumph, of the Laughing Mask," the last chapter of "The Iron Claw,'' and "A Lumberland Pirate," the first chapter of a new serial, "A Lass of the Lumberland." The star feature for the. evening is a thoroughly exciting melodrama, "The World Against Him," with June Elvidge and E. H. Lincoln as the leading Things happen at once. Mark West's little sister dies as th e result of a reckless operation performed by a surgeon as an experiment which he well knew Would result in "the child's death. By accident Mark discovers the truth, "and, seeing red, he kills th c assistant. For this he is condemned to death, and there in the gaol, occurs the strange wed. ding that i* the central dramatic incident of the picture, a wedding in which h e is the bridgegroom only because he is soon to die. The acting of E. K. Lincoln is superb throughout this succes-sion-of strong situations, and nothing good can be said of June Elvidge. The fight in the half-breed's shack, where Mark rescues; the girl he adores from the attentions of an Indian is a fine piece of stage craft, and full of thrills from start to 'finish. The outdoor scenes are particularly fine. This big programme will bo presented ;t the matinee on Satur. day aftemrxm, and for the last time in the evening. On Sunday Cvrvs Townsenid Brady's splendid book. "Sunlight's Last Raid," will be screened in picture form, with the charming artist, Mary Anderson, in the leading role. TOWN HALL. In the latest of the William Fox productions, which is showing at the Peerless Pictures to-night, entitled "The Small Town Girl," featuring the fascinating screen star, June Caprice. This star is seen in a 'comedy drama in which scenes of city life are delightfully intermingled with scenes in a small town. Every foot of this 5000 ft. production is a triumph for. June Caprice, whose work in the many roles of this fascinating play exceeds anything she has done before. It is a photoplav from the book of life, full of joys and sorrows, laughter and tears, of hope and deep despair. A brief synopsis is na follows: A country girl, June, comes to New York to take care of her aunt's child. In a squalid First Avenue tenement she meets Frank, her old sweetheart back home, ■who had come to the city to make good. In the same house with June, is a band of crooks. Thev steal a jewel and hide it in the heel of a slipper belonging to Mame, the woman of the gang. Jane, the child finds the slipper and in a playful tussle over it witli Frank pulls the heel off. The gem falls to the floor. Frank recognises the stolen gem and hurries off to get the police. Meantime the crooks discover the loss of th e slipper, Mame quizzes Jane and learns June has it. With her men confederates she attacks June just as Frank returns with the police. The crooks are arrested, una June and Frank go back for their honeymoon. The support will be another chapter of "The Girl and the Game." On Sunday Jesse L. Lasky presents Olga. Petrova in a Paramount feature enthVed "Exile." The endurance of a proud woman, unhappily married to an extremely unwholesome man is the theme of this great Petrova production. MANDL'S HALL, BLACKBALL. In Mandl's Hall to-morrow (Saturday evening) Pollard's will present the marvellous picturisation of the world-tamed novel, "My Official Wife," with the clever and versatile Clara Kimball Young in the role of Helen Marie, the beautiful Queen of the Nihilists. This great artist is supported b v such sterling artists as Henry Morey, Earle Wlliams, Roger Lytton, Mary Anderson, Louise Beandet and Rose Taplcy. The story was written with a purpose and to give a true and vivid world-picture of Russia and its dark and mysterious forces. On Sunday evening Pollards will present a triple star feature programme that includes the last chapter of "The Iron Claw" and tlm first chapter of the Signal Company's big serial, "A Lags of the Lumberland." The starpicture of the evening will be the World Film's sensational melodrama, "The World Against Him." with June Elvidge and E. H. Lincoln in the leading roles. The prologue of the play pictures the risks taken by an unscrupulous surgeon who values science above human life, and in the cause of science he deliberately operates on a. l'ttl" eii'l. knowing that it will mean her deith. Her brother learns the truth and kill* him. For this the brother is senfcen-ed to dentil, and it is here that trm real story of "Trrn W-'M Against Him" commences. The marriage

of the doomed man to a society girl, the escape, and the fight in the half breeds shack, are splendid pieces of stage craft, and lull of thrills from stare to finish. METTRICK'S HALL, BLACKBALL. The main attractions at McLean's Pictures on Saturday is a Metro wonderplay, entitled ' "Destiny; or the Soiil of a Woman." The story in brief of "Destiny" is as follows:—Standish, an artist, uses Mary, his,wife, as the model for his painting of the Madonna. When the Connoisseur and the Parishioner come to inspect the picture, the Connoisseur recognises in the rnodel an old paramour and tells the husband so. The husband, while surprised, fails to disclose his identity, and the visitors'purchase th e picture. After their departure the artist upbraids his wife. She tells him of her long acquaintance with the Connoisseur and how, for five yeais. she believdd herself legally married to him. But the husband, unforgiving, turns her and her infant son out into the street. . . . The mother leaves her baby on the steps of a monastery with a crucifix bearing her name. Then she enters a squalid resort known as the "House of Lost Souls," and becomes its reigning queen. Years Intor ' the boy is a parish priest. In a fearful storm an old hag enters the church. It is the mother. She sees above th e r\tnr the painting of the Madonna for which s he posed, and recognises her son by the crucifix,he still wears. The son skives the mother absolution, as the Angel of Death enters and bears off her spirit. —gICT—IT