FARLAND'S PICTURES.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 January 1918, Page 2

FARLAND'S PICTURES.

Oh <Fitiday evening Farland's 1 are showing a brilliant Vitagraph dramatisation of Robert Cham- >j hers' great story "The Girl Philippa." A synopsis is as follows J "About the year 1900 in a mid- J night raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair aAd car- $ rv off the infant crown princess. J ; The time shifts to the present. h Foreign agents steal the'plans of a new shell loaned Great Britain t by America. Halkett and Gray, K ) English Officers, recover the plans; | and the foreign agents endeavour to gain possession of them ag'ain. - } Warner, an American artist in . France secures as his model Philippa. Browbeaten by her foster father Wildresse, she is to spy upon Warner, who*has become a confidant of Halkett- She ex- |4| poses Wildresse to Warner and goes to him for refuge. Wild- 'iuy resse and his band capture her. |§ Warner penetrates ' the master spy's stronghold and rescues Phi- J|| lippa. Meanwhile while war be- * tween France and Germany has J| broke out. Philippa discovers proofs that she is a princess ia I~M trapped in the cellar because of a * battle fought in the streets. War- *J§ ner defends her from >and the invaders until the French save them. Philippa's true identity is established and Warner who has wooed her as a waif, now ( ,05 receives his answer from her as a princess," , J| There was a packed house on Tuesday to see Charlie Chaplin in , "The Rink," and it was unamm- j ously voted the funny man s best • ■, and cleverest. To-night The Microscopic Mystery is the ieat- ti ure film. • %