AMUSEMENTS.

West Coast Times, 9 November 1914, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. "THE PRISONER OF ZEND A.” TO-NIGHT. -Most people have read Anthony Hope’s delightful romance, but as it forms the star picture in the new programme to be submitted at the Princess Theatre to-night, the following brief outline of the plot may prove interesting to intending patrons. On the eve of his coronation, ißudolf, the weak of Ruritania, finds himself a prisoner at Zenda, in the power of Black Michael, an unprinoipaUed mem bor of tho reigning house, who is plotting to secure tho throne for himself. Tn this dilemna, the King’s friends find Rudolf .Rassendyll, a soldier of fortune, who. bears a startling resemblance to the King. They urge him to impersonate the King and submit to be crowned. Rassendyll does so, an<f falls in lovo with Princess FJavia, and after a desperate struggle with himself decides to sacrifice his love and remain faithful to his oath to restore the King to his rightful throne. After a series of stirring that duty is accomplished, and Rassendyll reveals his true identity to the Princess, who in heroic renunciation sacrifice® her own love because the welfare of her people demands her to rule in Ruritania. The picture which is four thous and four hundred feet in length was produced by “Frohman’s Famous Players”, and with America’s greatest romantic actor, James K. Hackett, in his original character of Rassendyll, tho soldier of fortune. The balance of the programme consits of a new “Gaumont Graphic,” a nature sludy, “The Frog, Solomander, and Toad,” a Kalem comedy, “Bottled Romance,” a scenic “Among the Eskimos in Siberia,” and a A’itagraph fun-promoter “A Lesson in Jealou.sy.” .