MAORILAND PICTURES.
"THE GARDEN OF ALLAH." The setting and the theme of a picture drama have seldom been in such harmony as in the Sclig masterpiece, -"The Garden of Allah," to be shown at the theatre to-morrow night. This is a pieturisation of Robert Hichen's powerful novel of the same name, and the screen contrived to reproduce the mysterieus glamour of the Snharan desert even more successfully than the book itself does. The austere charm and the iiery fervour of Algerian days and nights have their counterpart in this passionate story of love that- was forbidden and of the sacrifice which atoned for it. Helen A\ T arc as Domini meets a strange man at Bcni-Mora. At first he flees at the mere sight of » woman, but there comes a time when his uncontrollable desire thrsws him into her arms. He begs her not to,listen to what he said, but she replied. "You must say it —for I must hear it." A terrible sandstorm occurs' as they are being married. It is almost as though an angry fate were giving them a last warning. An immense tome, xvhi«h arips from first to Inst. 4 __________
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 9 May 1919, Page 2
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194MAORILAND PICTURES. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 9 May 1919, Page 2
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