Within the Law

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 April 1915, Page 2

Within the Law

bucuusblul alike at; novel and plaj" ithin the Law" has uiade history in three continents. Tins remarkable essentially American pi;oduction first came to Australasia ae a novel, but its. greatest .achievements have been aa V | P^y? and as a virile, tense, and powerfully emotional story it haa told realistically and hvith convincing force . from the stages of every Englishspeaking country. Round the Ameiican police department have been writ ten many graphic stories of ite pel nicious "third degree" examination* • [ but Amercan drama dealing witl} New York police methods has reached it# highest pinnacle in this really wonderful play. Set in New York, "Within the Law" is American entirely. It brings to us an atmosphere widely divergent from methods and means at which we are acquainted. The play'" is gripping, deeply touching in it* * story, but full of quaint American dialogue which vests it with that necessary element of humour. Written round some years of the life of an emporium shop-girl, wrongly convicted of the theft of goods and sentenced to 4 term of three years' imprisonment, notwithstanding her protestations of in- : nocence, ,her wealthy employer exact# the full penalty of the law. The victim of a fellow employee who to escape detection secrets tße stolen goods in her locker. Mary Turner serves her sentence and hounded by the police on her release, she seeks self-de-struction. Joe Carson, the forger and crook, is the instrument ot her rescue, and as the brain of a gang whose op-, erations are morally criminal, yet absolutely "Within the Law." Mary Turner enters upon her revenge on Edward Gilder, and accomplishes it by marrying bis idolised son, whose loyal tv ultimately wrests from the tan pled skein peace and happiness.

The scene in Inspector Burke's office at police headquarters where is practised the iniquitious "third degree" in the endeavour to get at the truth of the murder is wonderfully realistic and full of dramatic interest. The company will appear at Levin on T' ursday night, April 29th. in the. King'.s Theatre, and the box plan is noiv on view at Ken Aitken's and 'phone 28,' where seats may be reserved without extra cEarge