GLOBE PICTURES.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14844, 9 December 1913, Page 10

GLOBE PICTURES.

"The Sacrifice at tiie topiiiway" was the star item in the now programme screened at the Globe Theatre yesteruay. Tne picture tells ot an exciting ■story of an American canal, aud. au engiii'otiring structure, which lifts bai ges over a hill. Bob, a barge "hand," and Sal, are- sweethearts. the barge captain, rejects his old fiancee and forces his attention upon rial. Tnis leads up to a fight between Bob and Curtis, in which tne latter receives a thrashing. The trouble is continued on a 'subsequent occasion, and Curtis, while intoxicated, attacks his employer, who endeavours to intercede. Curtis is thereupon disniisstxl, and Bob is appointed captain. Curtis later on tries to smash up Bob and his barge by wrongfully operating the levers on the "spillway." Bob is saved through the bravery of Sal, who. struggles with Curtis. - While endeavouring- to escape Curtis is intercepted by Bob, and during a desperate encounter between them. on the edge of the "spillway" Curtis's rejected fiancee shoots the villain dead and saves Bob. Good supporting pictures were:—"The Hobo arid the Myth" (comedy), "The Law and His Son" (drama), "Crayfish" (comic), "Jim, "Wanted by the Police" (comic\ and the latest "Warwick Chronicle."