AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE.

Clara Kimball Young in the Select Pictures great tragedy plajy "The Road through the Dark,” will ho Pollard’s chief attraction in tonight’s display. To see Clara Kimball .Young in a tragic incident calling for womanly emotion is to see one of the finest emotional artists on the stage and as Gagrile Jarclee, the French mistress of compulsion of _ a German officer she has a part which might easily be spoilt by the least shade of coarseness or even clumsiness of interpretation. To save the lives of an entire French community she consents to become the mistress of a German commander, while secretly planning to act as a spy for France. With Clara Kimball .Young in such a role the quality of the drama may be taken for granted. Clara Kimball Young has been described as the Bernhardt of the screen, for she is mistress of all the arts that make a successful emotional actress. Added to a womanly charm of great beauty, she is a finished ,actress in the best sense of the word, and her name alone on the star line of a new play is sufficient to guarantee an entertainment of high merit.

TOWN HALL. Maurice Tourneur, the master producer, has exceeded himself in the filming of Maeterlinck’s immortal story, "The Blue Bird,” which, as a Paramount-Artcraft Masterpiece is to be screened at the Peerless in the Town Hall to-night (Wednesday). As a collection of gorgeous spec tacks it would be impossible to conceive anything more varied than the many wonderful and vivid semes that Mr. Tourneur has obtained in depicting the search after happiness, as told in Maeterlinck’s story. There is a scene of impressive grandeur that needs special mention. A myriad of mothers can be seen on a mountain outlined against the risitur sun, with arms outstretched awating a great sfup that sails out of the Heavens. This ship contains the babes whom the great Creator' nas sent to gladden tlie earth "The Blue Bird is a veiitable triumph of artistry. The supports include a 2-reel Sunshine comedy “Wild Waves and Women,” and "The Grey Seal.”