MAORI LAND PICTURES.
“THE SILENT WITNESS.” To-morrow night’s star film will be “The Silent Witness,’’ a “foursquare” play featuring Gertrude McCoy. This is an extraordinary picture, unfolding an exceptionally interesting •story. It tells bow on innocent victim faces death for a crime no one had committed. It gives scope for power- . fill acting, ami makes a fine picture. “THE SOUL OF BUDDHA.” Fresh from her triumphs ia “Cleopatra,” “Camille,” “Rose of Blood,” “Du Barry,” and “The Forbidden Path,” the versatile Miss Bata adds new lustre io her fame in this screen masterpiece, to be presented at Otaki on Saturday night. She leaves the beaten path of romance and conducts her audience into an environment that is new and startling, unfolds a plot that grips and holds and carries one breathlessly to the very end. The plot is Alias Bara’s very own —for she conceived the story, wrote it, and acts the leading role as one inspired. From tb Old World and its superstitions to the modern metropolis or Art the plot runs swiftly. As a daughter of the heathen gods, whom love steals from her parents’ faith, Miss Barn rises to beigtbs of dramatic and emotional acting that she lias never before achieved. The role gives full play her dramatic talents.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 15 September 1920, Page 2
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