"MONEY"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 May 1916, Page 3

"MONEY"

Thore are maniy brilliant scenes in this great photo-play, shown last night by the management of Farland's pictures strongly reminiscent ot the descriptions of old Roman bacchanalian feast such was the picture of the Banquet where guests, leaning orer the edge of the great bond of wine. Tiave their wineglasses filled for them by a'beautiful female. The banquet was the millionaire's way of showing his contempt for the opinion of the workpeople whose wages Be had reduced. Roman notables held a "banquet of death" while Alaric and his Goths were Knocking at the gates of Rome, and battering down its defences. In tins case the enraged and hungry workers break into the millionaire's palace and l wreck the banquet hall. They are driven out, but later the great palace i-; struck by lightning and sot afire. Its destruction : the smoke and flame, the crashing down of the beautiful oolored marble column; and the flight of the millionaire .and hie servaiSs is a great piece of realism. The whole story abounds with thrills end scenes oif magnificence. The picture wiTl be shown again to-night.