THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1923, Page 2

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NEXT. There are some pictures which cost large sums of money to produce, and for which fine best talent is engaged, but for some unknown reason they do not pleaso the public taste. !Lilt could nut be said of the great p'.etureiilni ‘‘The Three Musketeers.” its intrinsic cost, large as it was, is not comparable to the merits of the story as told by the talented folks concerned in its production. Douglas Fairbanks takes the role of d’Artagnan, and amongst those associated with him are Marguerite tie la .Motto, Barbara- la Mar and Mary McLaren, all stars in their own right-. Nearly 100.00.) dollars were spent on the costumes, more than half that amount on the exterior sets, and 250,0dd altogether. The plot is a very fine one, and keeps the beholder on tenderhouks of expectation right through. The period dealt with is the year 1025, when d’Artagnan s lather sent him on his way to Paris, armed with advice to conquer the world. The son was to bear in mind “ loyal tv to the King, reverence for tho Cardinal, and devotion to the Queen.” “ Fight,” the old Frenchman had said, “ fight the more that duelling is forbidden, for by so doing you doubly prove your courage ” And 'having placed in his son’s hands a letter to the captain of the King’s Musketeers. he gave him a sword and a venerable horse and sent his boy forth in the world. At this tune. Cardinal Richelieu, the powerful Minister ot France, was seeking to widen the breach already existing between the King an his wife, the lovely Anno of Austria. Could he but estrange the roval pair, for Anne’s influence threatened his supremacy with the King, his power would be undistputed Anne had an admirer in the person of the English Duke of Buckingham, and while she steadfastly rejected his adiances. Richelieu sought to make her appeal guilty in the eyes of the King, " J? given her a diamond buckle. Ims tne Queen bad presented to her admirer as a token of remebrnneo. Richelieu had learned of this gift, and prompted the King to command Anne to appeal at the State ball wearing the buckU. How d’Artagnan, beset by spies and Sards. crossed the Channel, communicated with Buckingham wrested the diamonds from Milady do W mtci ( Cardinal’s spy), who hail stolen them, at tho very moment when rmn cm fronted her, forms a thrilling till . Not onlv did he gain the gratitude o the Queen and his own sweethia , but the grudging admiration of the Cardinal himself. The audience wue greatlv impressed with the magmficeiue nf the mature, the power and strength of the story, the finished presentation of the various characters, and the absorbing developments as the great t ■ is unfolded in all its complexity. Lhe scenes are stated to he historically corvect the beau tv of the actresses is undeniable, and the whole P ro<lu “ must, bo pronounced one of the itextant.

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