ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2081, 24 January 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The star featur* at the Royal to-night is “A Soul Without Windows.” The story, brielly, is as follows; —A little child is found by the roadside with her dying mother ami taken in charge by the kindly but severe Quakers of the settlement. The child knows only that her name is “Hopania.” She grows up in the narrow Jii’e, a thing foreign to the peaceful community. She comes into the life of Scott Mallory, who has, been paralysed saving ids fiances from drowning. The girl has taken back her liberty, and until Hopavmt came lie doubted all Hie world. Scot lis cured by an operation; and, fearful chat her son will marry Hie unknown girl, Mrs Afa I lory tells Hopamu that Scott is to marry Faith Palmer, his old swenyheart. Hopaimi steal.-! away io an old musician, and in the end it is revealed that her baby name is merely Hope Palmer, and the slain on her birth cleared away. Airs Mallory welcomes her as a daughter. “The World lo Live In," to he screened on Monday, is Alice Brady’s most sideci. pii-tare, and i.- one of |he most (hiring, yet innocently entertaining, feaiarcs in which she has appeared. Miss ]irmly handlethe principal role, nmsierfully, making the characlt-r one to be both pitied and admired, a living, breathing girl of a type Hint abides hy hundreds in the big cities —a species of salamander, courting attention, taking all, giving nothing in return. With strong dramatic touches sprinkled throughout, the picture is entertaining to a degree, not (he least uiHactivo point being the novelty of types and story.