AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 22 June 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

POLLARD'S PICTURES. Owing to the theatre being leased for to-night, .there will be no picture display. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY , . TOM MOOR.E. To-morrow (Wednesday) a nd Thurs. day evenings Pollard's will present the popular screen idol, Tom Moore i n the big Goldwyn comedy, "One of the Finest." Tom Moore's Dew Goldwyn picture, not only affords any number of delightful surprises in the way of startling complications and Unexpected thrills _, but shows the popular Tom in a decidedly new guise— Larry Hayes a mounted policeman, monarch of all 'he surveys in the fashionable park comprising his beat. He makes his first mistake in the performance of his duty when he overtakes a speeding limousine amd reminds its beautiful occupant, Frances Hudson, that her chauffeur is exceeding the limit. The society girl" resents this and sets about to get him dismissed. Instead, he is reduced to the rank of plain clothes man — but not before Frances Hudson has been saved by him when her life is in peril. Assigned to guard her sister's wedding presents, Larry again meets the g-irl he can't forget and proves that she hasn't forgotten him either. From this moment surprises begin to happen, but it doesn't do to tell top much. MINERS' HALL, RUNANGA. To-night at the Miners' Hall, Runanga, Pollard's present Tom Moore j\i the startling new Goldwyn picture, "One of the Finest." It is a picture that affords a number of delightful incidents, startling complications and thrills, but shows the popular actor in the new guise of Larry Hayes, a mounted policeman. The 7th and most startling episode of the delightful serial, "The M «in of Might" will also be screened this evening. PEERLESS PICTURES. Owing to the Hall being otherwise engaged 1 there will be no display of Peerless Pictures in> the Town Hall to-night. MATINEE WEDNESDAY. The usual matinee will be given on Wednesday when the successful fivereel Paramount "Poor Boob," featuring Bryant Washburn, will be shown. Wednesday night's big attraction is a double star programme. The main I feature is a six-act Jewel masterpiece entitled, "DESTINY" Featuring Dorothy Phillips. Out of [ the ruck of pictures that are "just movies" there stands one now and again that bears the impress of reality. Its people seem, more than mere screen characters — they seem folk that you know, or might have knowtn. Their motives are understandable. Their actions are based o» emotions | common to all of us. They can get down beneath the veneer of photoplay convention to life itself. "Destiny" is such a story — it tells of the choice that we have at the cross-roads of life — how one path leads to destruction and the other to lasting happiness. It tells of ambition — of greed — of the clash of will against will, of love and of hate. The other star feature is "POOR BOOB." Featuring Bryant Washbtfrn. Making mistakes was more than a hobby with the' Boob. It was his profession. He was the greatest muddler ever' heard of, and he couldn't keep a job f6r a week.

awaiting development, some 50 promised to come, but alas, like all promises, Bill's included, they were made to be broken, and now their chagrin may be more imagined than described. The gold and the diamonds that they would have been enabled to pass along to posterity, with the legea? that, "once upon a time the West Coast was isolated and forlorn, and when a party of Parliamentarians invaded its solitudes, the inhabitants fell over one another jto do them homage, and did present J them with pre</ous minerals, and the party were so impressed, that they promised that the isolation should foe removed and the forlorn spirit should pass away for ever, and it was so/ We feel pleased to note that Mr Burnett, M.P.,. for Teinuka, made the amende honorable, as regards negl?Tt to consult the member for ifie district, in regards to cringing the PaTliamentray Party through this district, and opined, "that when Mr Holland knew all, he would forgive all." They were out for 1 the good of all. Now, although we, as good labour people, are jealous that no slur shall be cast upon our Member, we are not churlish, and when the soft word is spoken, we are ready to forgive and if all Members of Parliament were . out to do wjhat they considered the right thing for the Dominion, as a whole, we apprehend that it would be better for the 1 Dominion. Mr Burnett is a new member, [•eager to do good work, pity if his associations, when he reaches the Talking Shop, warp him.. Many have gone tihe same road before, but after a few .terms, being pulled this way and pullred that way, they have returned to those who sent them, scarcely recognisable, through the change brought about, through keeping questionable company: Let us trust that the new blood entering Parliament • infuses a better tone" into the older set. Shakespeare said: "that's in a name," and one greater still! "By tbeir deeds shall ye know them. "