AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1918, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD'S PSGTURESc

AIADGE EVANS AND “THE IRON CLAW” TO-NIGHT.

Pollards will present to-night, in the Princess Theatre a melo-dramu of more than usual .strength, “The Little Dnchtss,” which has for its central figure, the marvellous child actress, Madge Evans. This child wonder plays the part of Geraldine Gaimieliael, or as slio is called, Jerry. On the death of her mother, sooner ihan go to the orphan asylum, she runs away and joins a circus. This escapade is made the means of introducing some vivid ami original touches into the story Tracked down as the grandalighter of the Earl of Carnimoro, she is taken to the Castle in England. She is inst died as his grandchild and hoire- s, and ir, is through her efforts that the grim tragedy that has overshadow d the Carnimore fain-ly is cleared np. Nothing so strong in praise can be said of the acting of Ala dire Evans. Plenty of child stars are aide to express cheerful moods, but it is seldom that a child is seen who can portray the most powerful emotion, and this latter is the remarkable gift of this child wonder. The 19th and last.

chapter of “ The Iron Claw,” is told under the title of “ The Cave of Despair.” The Alask is arrested and Margij'v asks him to disclose his identity and lie does.

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

Madame Olga Petrova will be seen in

;*. Metro sensation, “The Waiting Soul.” The story is as follows: A married man wins the love of it trusting girl. His wife divorces him. lie imuies the girl, the blames her for the “disaster of his life. She quite him and faces poverty. Kindly persons obtain employment as a trained nurse, lu that work she nurses a young American millionaire back to health. She loves him, he loves her. They are married. She tells him nothing of her past. Years go by, and a tiny soul stands waiting at the threshold of their home. The wife is wrapped up in that child. She dreams of it. plans for it and then comes to her the thought that her own silence means she is deceiving her husband, and that, the waiting soul may suffer by it. She decides 10 tell him all. .81m does so, and she learns that.'her husband is the type of man she had not- suspected.