Farland's Pictures

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 September 1918, Page 3

Farland's Pictures

Farland's big double bill should attract a big week-end audience to-night. It embraces a wide variety and should please patrons. On Monday "The Iron Claw" serial .and "Richard, the Brazen" will (head tho bill, while on Tues. day r-oimetbing artistic is promised,, in a picturisation of Edgar Alien Poe s powerful and tragic poem "The Raven which is generally understood to depict the life of the .famous but illstarred American. Henry B. Walthall taikes the leading role, and all New York flocked to see his impressive portrayal! of Poe's masterpiece.

"The Enemy Within"--due at Far/and's next Wednesday night—is a pie, ture that has had a phenomenal run in Australia and that has just recently reached the Dominion. In the atihlotio world there is probably no name that ,stands more for the typical Australian sportsman than that of 'Reg. Baker, ("Snowy" to his friends), who has taS:en international Ihionours in -boxing and swimming. Ho takes the chief role in "The Enemy Within," and by reason of his athletic prowesp, performs feate which other atrists can only fake. An 80-foot.dive into the surging waves -a startling 300 foot climb down the eliffs by a rope—a leap from a flying motor— a rescue from the flying motor —and a fight that is a classic of motion picture realism—these are some of the incidents and all through its course the film is a warning and an indictment against those enemies within our gates wiho do all they oan to aid the enemies of tho nation without. on this thrilling super-feature the "Theatre" magazine recently said): "The Enemy Within," dealing with German spies in Australia, and featuring Snowy Baker in some thrilling atMetic feats is now making a fiucceesful circuit of Sydney's suburban houses and wilH begin a tour of the country districts. An. other copy is working South Australia. Reports to hand are to the effect that the picture is as greA.fc a draw there as it was in Sydney. TOe production is on a big scale and is proving a winner on its merits.