AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. - TO-NIGHT. A big clever detective story with an amazingly master criminal moving - tht pawns will be found I 'in' ‘‘Through l, the Wall,” the Vi'tagraph Blue Rjbtiu.. I Feature that will bo screened at the Princess Theatre hy Pollards’ Pictures to-niglit. “George Holt,” the noted 5 clra malic star of strong parts,' is suit—l - ed to perfection in th e role of lloidlet man, the spectacular plotter who is the. central figure of the play. Tho scone from which the film takes its title is dramatic and its conccptny. : boldly original by a series of cunning • strait egems. Hoi diem an gets rid of ! on 0 he fears and fastens the crime on another of Iris enemies—the murder i being achieved through a hole in the partition between two cabinets in a fashionable restaurant. Tho detective is an equally good characterisation, the scenes' between the criminal and the detective being most artistically and cleverly constructed. A big feature jn “Through the. Wall’’ is the submarining of a huge Atlantic finer, which is most realistic. A charming

love story relievos the tenseness of the powerful dramatic scenes that abound in this great production- “Through the Wall” is well supported by the latest Topical Budgets and 1 the clever comedy, “'.An ■ Eventful Honeymoon.”