ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1573, 6 July 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES

“THREE AVEEKS.”

A magnificent reproduction of the love story that startled two continents, Elinor Glyn’s “Three Weeks,” will ho screened at the Town Hall on Friday and Saturday. This startling’ character creation — the wayward and tigerish yet suffering' and beautiful Sonia, Queen of Severia —-with all its imperfections on its head, must ever ho regarded as a wonderful piece of work. Prut ally treated by the King —her worthless and dissolute husband, who is tolerated on the throne by the fact of being her husband — this woman of Slav origin, and with the peculiar Slav temperament, though loved and revered by her people as the noblest lady who ever wore a crown, Hies into obscurity and lives incognito at Bergenstock. There begins and matures the story of an a wakened soul, born of a first long kiss. Paul Yerdaync, a young Englishman, linds in this mysterious woman a magnetic attraction. Her chameleon-like eyes, eternally changing colour, seem as wells of love and passion, and as they gaze into his soul there comes to both undying love —the spirit of two natures vibrating as one. A severe stroke of paralysis strikes down the unworthy king. As there is no son to succeed him, a fact which has earned him the comntempt and hostility of his subjects, a, successor from another line is chosen to succeed him at his death. The Queen, on hearing this, decides that none but one born in Severia, and of royal birth shall rein in Severia.. Then follows for Paul and the Queen what Miss Glyn describes as “Three Weeks” —of Paradise. Later the Slav Queen returns to Severia, leaving her lover, English Paul, disconsolate. In the course of time and events, she presents her son and Paul’s as the (rue heir. The dissolute King accepts the paternity of the child, and placates his subjects by proclaiming the fact to the nation. Afterwards rage and jealousy awaken in him, and seeking the Queen in her apartments, he cries; “Since thou hast at last obeyey me and found me an heir, making the people love me, I have no more use for thee. It will be a joy to kill I lice,” whereupon he slew her, and so —as ever —the woman paid the price, but in this instance not alone, for Vasili, her faithful servitor, coming on the scene, “springs upon the villainous King and tears his heart out on the marble door.” He also takes the life of the Chief Secretary. The child in time is crowned King of Severia.