McLEAN’S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1920, Page 3

McLEAN’S PICTURES.

“CONFESSION”

’—FRIDAY

“Confession” seems to have been written especially for Miss Carmen’s beauty and her sterling emotional powers. She begins as a bride, and the bridal dress and veil enhances her radiant loveliness. She and the bridegroom slip away from their guests. It is the beginning of their honeymoon, and as it happens, it is also the beginning of a series of events that whirl through to a tremendous climax.

| They are held up and their baggage, j money and even the bride’s wedding 1 ring is taken by the highwaymen. | When they arrive at their hotel the i clerk does not believe they are married and they spend the night in two arm chairs in the lobby. At dawn the bridegroom saunters out to the porch to smoke. Suddenly he hears a woman scream. He enters a room off the porch and finds a woman murdered. When the detectives enter, he is (lending over the body holding the woman’s jewels and the steel paper cutter with which she was killed. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to the chair. Appeals to the governor are in vain.

The bride’s father has the bride put on all her jewelry and parade about the hotel, believing that the man who murdered the woman will he lured on by the gems. The night before the day set for the electrocution of the bridegroom a mail enters the bride’s room. He is, caught and confesses he committed the murder. There follows a spirited race to the governor. The latter calls the warden of the prison on the phone. The warden sends back word: “Too late,” the current had been turned.

It is in this awful predicament we find Miss Carmen. And then—and then comes the big surprise* of the picture. It pops unexpectedly and delightfully.

The opportunity for emotional acting occurs throughout the entire story. Miss Carmen proves equal to the task. She makes each point tell forcefully on the screen. She has never done better work. Further chapters of the serial, “Adventures of Stingarce.” will also he screened.