FARLAND'S PICTURES

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 March 1916, Page 2

FARLAND'S PICTURES

"THOU .SHALT NOT KILL." On Monday next, at the King's Tiieatre, Leviu, a s-pecin> teature will be shown. It is entitled "Thou Shalt Aot Kill; or. The Avenging Conscience." It is au emotional drama, in six parts, and tlte lilm i.s 6000 ft. iii length. The plot concerns a baby that been ieft in the care of a bachelor undo, \v!io lavishes all his love and tenderness on his charge, and plans a great literary career lor lnm. Hut in doing this he overlooked tho influence of the woman in the case. The young mail meets a beautilul girl whom he names •'Annabel Lee," after the heroine oi Edgar Allan Foe's famous verses to his dead love, out the uncle of the boy interferes, in •what he rcgarck as the best interests

of the lad. The uncie insults Annabel, ;unl she, recognising, that the boy 8 obligations to his uncle are too great to be broken honorably, resolves that she and the hoy will part for ever. Meanwhile, however, the uncle undergoes a change of heart as the. young people, grief-stricken and all unknowing of his presence, say their final farewells. It is then that the great and sav-iny; grace of conscience demonstrates its power, and time the healer eventually salves all wounds.