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ROYAL PICTURES

The shiv aaoraclioti to-night is the Goldwyn feature, ‘‘The Bondage Barbara,’’ in. which Mae Marsh takes the leading role. It is the story of a girl whose sacred word to her dying‘mother to care for and protect —at all costs her young brother, was strong enough to make her sacrifice herself, love, ambition, happiness, and go to gaol for a. crime she didn I commit.

To-morrow night the life story of John Lee, “The Man They Could Not Hang,” will he told on the wreen. A sensational picture, accompanied by the celebrated orator, Frederick Haldane, who tells the story while the picture is being screened. This is the most tragicoietare ever filmed —a story founded I), facts, a ease that has appeaioo a every newspaper in the civilised vorld. John Lee, loved and respected by all who knew him, in the idle village of Babbacomhe, Kngnml, was accused and found guilty if doing to death his benefactress. Miss Emma Kcyse. He was sentenced to death to he hanged on the gallows. Three attempts were made p> lmug him. and each one tailed. See this picture, the modern illusivaliou of miracles. Fee the mans Jfe from childhood to manhood, the relationship between “the murderer" and the murdered. See the chain of “'circumstantial evidence”; see his life in the Navy; his love for Miss Kevse; the fatal night; the murder; incriminating evidence; the ai'iest) ihe sentencejhis sweetheart s faith; the marriage in the prison coll; the morning of the execution; the strange dream;t.ho tolling bell, tlm black Hag; the dead march; the mo,Hold: the blessing; the order—(he scaffold fails to work. Testing ;he scaffold; his life sentence; prison life; the railway disaster; the. mysterious stranger —the death-bed eonfes.-don. The release; the icnnion; the workhouse—hack to bis home, sweet home.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19210106.2.18

Bibliographic details
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2223, 6 January 1921, Page 3

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299

ROYAL PICTURES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2223, 6 January 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2223, 6 January 1921, Page 3

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