LYRIC PICTURES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 May 1918, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES

—Friday Evening—

Almost flawless is the setting of " When Love was Blind," a powerful Pathe Gold Rooster. Florence La Badie is the star, and she is wonderfully dainty and acts with great appeal in the emotional scenes of the play. She portrays a girl who goes blind, and contracts an alliance with a young artist whom she loves. She expects of course that he will marry her and trusts him completely. Then her sight is restored, and the first thing she sees is her lover apparently embracing one of the servants. Heartbroken, she goes away, and it is not until many dark days have passed that he lover and she are re-united. The scenes of artistic Bohemian life .are faithfully pictured, and the setting is lavish in the extreme. The last scene is exceedingly dramatic, the heroine's dreadful fear proving to be absolutely without foundation. The whole drama is a credit to the Pathe studios, and is one of the best they have ever put out.

—Saturday Evening—

" The Honorable Algy " (Charles Ray) —Algy is desperately in love with Patricia, the beautiful dark - eyed daughter of the Vicar of Hadleigh ; but, despite this fact, his father and brothers send him to America to contract a good marriage and save the family fortunes. On shipboard he falls in with the dissolute Lord Rockmore and the millionaire James Dryker and his wife and daughter Grace. The Drykers leave their jewels which include the famous Cape Diamond (valued at £60,000) with the ship's purser for safe-keeping. The purser is robbed of the jewels by a crook named Harvey. The robbery is discovered, and in order to throw off suspicion, Harvey lowers the booty in his handkerchief down one of the stateroom ventilators. Algy sees the handkerchief descending and appropriates- the jewels, intending to return them later. As a result, he becomes involved in a series of remarkable complications. But when Grace Dryker takes a hand things begin to clear up. Rockmore, who has planned to marry the heiress, is discomfited, and his plan to fastenHhe theft on Algy is thwarted. In the end, Algy makes a big coup in Wall Street, and as a Christmas present finds his American friends have sent for his English sweetheart " Pat."

Billie Burke in " The Sooial Vortex," the fourth episode of GLORIA'S ROMANCE will also be screened,

—Tuesday Evening—

"And the Law Says"—A Mutual ma-iterpieoe, starring William Russell. Lawrence Kirby, a young law student, meets the daughter of Dr, Cartnell, and becomes infatuated with her He, however, meets her under an assumed nam«. and he is know under an alias when he leaves to escape the responsibility of the child which is later born to the young girl. Years later we see Kirby a judge. His own son is arrested on circumstantial evidence and accused of a murder of which he is innocent/ Kirby insists that circumstantial evidence is sufficient, and sentences his own son, unknown to him, to the chair, Just as the Jad is being dragged to the chair his identity is revealed to Kirby. The lad is taken to the chair, despite the judge's pleadings. Dr. Cartnell, who is a staunch opponent of capital punishment, declares h,e can bring the electrocuted boy back to life. Within an hour the lad is brought back tq his, mother's arms, and Judge Kirby, with tear-filled eyes, stands by,

Fridday ard Saturday will be two special bargain days of a large stock of general drapery — : a[most evprythin^ yqi^ require m the winter line. Inspection invited at the Ideal Drapery Store. *