TRILBY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2366, 23 January 1915, Page 7

TRILBY

9 . • ,0 . ,ZT THE PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. . - v J r =': Never has a book or a play had subK; a rogue as "Trilby"—the play about the girl with beautiful feet, and • the' loathsome yet hypnotist Svengali. The latter role has been., played by some of the best actors onij the English stage, and most of all- by, - tue greatest aotor of them all, the orea-, tor of the part, Sir Herbert Beerbohm'f' Tree. Now the play has been acted}. tor the kinematograph by Sir Herbert! Tree and his company, and the new film' is to be exhibited at the People's Pic-,* ture Palace on Monday.;.:. I generation may not all know- George du- ■ Maurier's great story.. The'adorable,, vhblesbme British paganSj Taffy, the' Laird, and Little Billee. lived together/ \ and worked spasmodically' at their • art: in the Quartier Latin, when there comesf i info the lives of the three, arid especi-i ally into the life of Billee, a girl, Trilby,; O'Farrall. Tben.like the serpent into, the garden oomes SvengaK; a villain,, but a genius, who, having heard Trilby* sing a simple ditty, knows at once that • she has a God-given voice. To mako Eer.an artist is clearly impossible,- and .-- to get over this difficulty he: hypnotises/ the girl, and she becomes the greatest; singer of the day, always under Sven-f cali's hypnotic suggestion., -.This "'influence in Trilby's life blight's Billee'a happiness, until Svengali one night dies in a passion, and Trilby is again the simple girl of the studios, unable with-' out Svengali's directing influence to. sing one note. The story, which ends '. appropriately with Little Billee and Trilby reconciled and supremely- happy,] is said to make an excellent kinematoc graph study.