ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2101, 11 March 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

To-night at the Royal a Metro leal are. "Flower of the Dusk” will be screened. “Flower of the Dusk is generally conceded fo lie Alyrlle Reed's'most popular novel. Il presents a human problem of unusual strength, and no one could have been idioscii more admirably fitted to visualise its heroine than Aliss Dana. She plays both Constance North, the mother, and Barbara North, the daughter. The seem' is laid in New England. Ambrose North Barbara's lather, after the death of his wife, becomes blind and loses his we;;|lh. I! is the loving task of Barbara, and her aunt Miriam lo prevent him from knoviing that lie is really dependent 11 pen I hem, and that Barbara does line needlework lo support bun. Shadows from the-past haunt him, the present and the past being remarkably intermingled. Alice Joyce, lovely, convincing, appealing, makes an attractive heroine in Vitagraph’s latest feature, “The Spark Divine,” to be -eivened to-morrow night. Her performance is an artistic triumph, and cannot fail to win even greatea admiration than Iter previous efforts have done. This lime she is a voting girl, disillusioned with mankind, and resolved to go her own way alone. The- divine spark is kindled only by a great mental upheaval after she is married and a mother, when her child is stolen at the instigation of her husband, in the hope that its absence will awaken her sleeping heart. Alice Joyce does as good work in this picture as she has ever done, and trains the sympathy of Hie audience from start to finish.