POLLARD'S PICTURES.

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1914, Page 5

POLLARD'S PICTURES.

"THE BATTLE OP GETTYSURG." TO-NIGHT.

An all new " programme Avill be screened at the Opera House to-night. The star pieturse "The Battle of Gettysburg" is claimed, as being the most massive, costly, and realistic w.ar ■picture : ever produced. The charming love story of Jack Lamar and . Virginia Burke !is"told amidst the grim horrors of war, and is brought to a happy ending after this great battle which practically finished the struggle between "North" arid "South" Gettysburg, a little town in Maryland, was, prior to the commencement of the war in 1861, a peaceful industrial town, its only claim to notice being the possession of a fine Lutheran College. After the war it was known as "The Second* Balaclava " for in and around it. had been fought the great battle of war, over fifty, thousand being the war, over fifty thousand being killed or wounded. The hill known as "The Little Eoun.l Top" was taken again and again, until finally the Confederates broke and ran,' without any interference from their conquerors. They, too, were exhausted and respected ,the sorrows of a gallant ftfe.. General Lee 1 , from the heights abovve, saw the wreck of all his hopes and ambitions, bowed his head and wept for those who had been sacrificed in the hideous struggle. The other pictures in the new series are a Kalem drama, "The Highborn Child and the Beggar Maid," a new "Gaumont Graphic," a Scotch comedy "Paying the Toper," a Pathe novelty "Cuious Caterpillars, and a film showing "The American Athletes hi New Zealand. ' ' It is exactly^ fifty-one" years to-day since "The Battle of Gettysburg'^ was fought. The orchestra will render appropriate selections.