AMUSEMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

• * OPERA HOUSE. Clara Kimball Young in the Select thrilling play “Through the Dark Road’’ will be screened for the last time to-night by Pollard’s Pictures. On Friday, Saturday, and matinee on Saturday afternoon, the greatest of living English actor, Sir Forbes • Robertson will be presented in a six reel picturisatiou of Jerome K. Jerome’s dramatic classic “The Passing of the Third Floor Back.” This great classic marks an epoch in screen literature with the world’s greatest actor as “The Stranger” the passer-by who brought love and understanding to a wretched sordid home. Every man and woman should see this picturisatidn and learn a lesson. a notable cast supports the great actor and the production stands alone as a work of fidelity of type. The last episode of “The Man of Might,” will conclude this sterling Vitagraph serial. Pollaz’d’s premier orcnesira under Mr. H. Hawkins will render appropriate music and prices will be as usual. , TOWN HALL. The great 20-round fight film, “Gigger’ _ ’Evans v. Jamito, will be shown at the Town Hall to-night f ' l ' the last time. Marguerite Clark is presented as a pseudo cook in the Paramount picture “Come Out of the Kitchen,” which will be pr sented at the Peerless in the Town Hall on Friday and Saturday. The story was taken from Alice Duer Miller’s play of;the same name. The chief charact°r is Claudia Haingerficld, a member of; an aristocratic, but impoverished Southern family. To send her parents, to New York so that her father might consult a .specialist regarding* p ;serious operation, Claudia is obliged to lease their home to a Northerner. This man. Burton Crane, wi 1 not have coloured servants in The house, and as white domestics __ are not to be had, Claudia, her sister, and two brothers are obliged to occupy the menial positions tlmmselve-. Claudia cannot cook and has to smuggle Mammy Jackson into the Crane becomes infatuated with Claudia ,and much is his surprise and*sorrow to hear Mammy Jackson’s snores emanating from a bean concealed. Happy situations such _as this punctuate the dramatic action of the story. Miss Clark’s role is admirably suited to her talents. Her leading man is Eugene O’Brien.