ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2152, 20 July 1920, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

A thrilling climax marks the finale, of,, the Australian Film 'Company’s screen version of the famous melodramatic success, “The Face at the Window,” to he screened to-night. After' committing a series of horrifying crimes, “Le Loup” is trapped in the house where lie lias murdered his latest victim. The murdered man had recognised his slayer, and before he expired had managed to write the first letters of his real name. Heath overtook him before he could complete the clue, but under the influence of an cleclric current his hand is enabled to complete the. last order of I lie brain, and “Le Loup” is shot in his tracks as he makes a frenzied effort to escape. Interwoven with the tragic theme is a tender romance, which preserves the balance of the play. To-morrow night a gripping story of life will he shown at this theatre, when Dorothy Phillips appears in “Destiny,” a story by Charles Neville Buck. !i is described as an intensely dramatic offering, dealing with modern American life, and leading to a tremendous climax. The theme of the picture deals with the result of jm overwhelming lust for power. This ambition presented in a. laudable light at first, is gradually transformed into a thing of evil, which wrecks (he lives of those dearest to him and his own.