LYRIC PICTURES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 August 1917, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES.

—Friday Evening—

As time goes on the quest for np.w and original themes and settings in the art of film production is becoming increasingly, difficult. In this respect the Triangle Co scored heavily over its rivals when it produced " The Jungle Child/ a powerful dramatic story, the opening scenes of which are laid in the forest wilds of America. The natural environment of an Indian village, the wild animals that dwell in the dense jungle of the tropical belt; jaguars, monkeys, the crocodiles of the steaming swamp rivers, are depicted in their native haunts, and in the centre of the picture is the heroine of the story, a beautiful creature of the wilds. She is a Spanish girl, who as an infant was adopted by an Indian tribe. Into her life comes an American explorer, who has lost his way, and is rescued and nursed back to health by the girl. Incidentally he discovers that she is' a lost heiress, and being thoroughly unscrupulous, gains her affections, and persuades her to go back with him. The end is dramatic to a degree. Excellent supporting items. —Saturday Afternoon — Grand Picture Matinee from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Splendid big programme. Bring the children. —Saturday Evening— "How Heroes are Made" —Charles and Rina are children of Captain Larive, a French officer serving under Napoleon. Their mother died from shock after being robbed by a wandering band, and they are brought up by an old woodcutter, their heartbroken father believing them dead. Charles enlists as a drummerboy, and by heroic courage in a great battle earns the Cross of Honour. He becomes a Captain and later is ensnared by Madame de Longueville, a fashionable woman, but is saved by Rina. She plots to destroy him, and while he is on a dangerous mission with dispatches from the Emperor she succeeds in having him trapped and drugged. Rina, however, rescues the dispatches, arriving in camp after a perilous journey, to find her brother being tried as a deserter. The trial is presided, over by Marshal Larive, who recognises Rina as his daughter, but can do nothing but his stern duty. Rina appeals to the Emperor, who in a dramatic scene, tears up the warrant, and in the end Charles makes good. —Tuesday Evening— " A Child of the Paris Streets," a Triangle drama, with Mac Marsh and Tully Marshall in leading roles. Mile. Dufrane, Queen of the Paris Apaches, pleads with a Judge for leniency for her son, but the judge is adamant and condemns him to the galleys, She plans revenge, and kidnaps the Judge's child, Julie. Years elapse, and Julie has grown up in the environment of crime and squalor, a full-fledged child of the Apache, and taught to steal with such expertness as xto escape even the shrewdest police. She rebels, and refuses to steal, for which she is beaten , and threatened with the dire punishment which all traitorous Apaches receive— death by strangulation. She escapes, and having met a " young artist of the Latin Quarter, goes to him for refuge. He befriends her, but she is eventually recaptured by the Apaches,, and Mile. Dufrane orders her to be strangled. How she is rescued and restored-to her father and her artist lover makes a most dramatic and delightful climax.