GRAND THEATRE.
The excellent programme sereeued for the first time yesterday at the Grand Theatre drew crowded audieacei
at all sessions. "From Out of the Past"' was tue principal picture. Tais is an Aquila drama, and was quite up to the reputation of tnis famous film company, tho photography and setting boing quite a feature, wnile the acting was admirable. The picture contains a very interesting , plot, in "which the principal party, in order to provide the necessaries of life for his mother, is induced to copy an important document, which an adventuress uses for the purpose of blackmail. Many years after the hero, now a prosperous man, enters the political arena, and he considers it a duty to expose tho operations of a mining company in which tho adventuress and her associates are largo shareholders. She is determined | that this exposure shall not take place j by threatening him with the exposure j o* his duplicity in the crime of many j years back. However, the adventuress j "herself is unmasked by a relative of j the hero. Another excellent drama j "By His Father's Orders," in which a merchant's son is shot by alady <-lork while breaking into his father's iiaV Other pictures were: "Buster's Little Game.' , a very fine Selig photo-play: "The City Feller" (Majestic drama); and "The Wild Man from Borneo," an exceedingly humorous item. A very good iilm, called the "Industries and Scenes in Xew South Wales, v completed a fine |>ioq,ranimo. The same pictures, will be j shown to-day and to-night. j
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 3
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258GRAND THEATRE. Press, Volume L, Issue 14986, 5 June 1914, Page 3
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