LYCEUM PICTURES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 222, 31 October 1916, Page 2

LYCEUM PICTURES.

" Edge of the Abyss." The star feature for to-morrow (Wednesday) evening's programme, " The Edge of the Abyss," is classed as the latest release by the Triangle Co., and is said to be a very powerful story play, involviog accurate settings and brilliant photographs, combined with artistic actings and interpretation The cast includes Mary Bolard, Willard Mack and Frank Mills. The theme is new and original. Briefly thus: Alma Clayton, a butterfly type of girl, is engaged to a sort of gilded youth. She meets an eminent lawyer, whom she marries, forsaking the youth. Gradually she tires of the lawyer and they (quarrel. He leaves her his mansion to live in, while he goes to his club. She attracts the youth back to her, and he endeavours to make her elope with him. His plans are frustrated just in time by a burglar, who breaks into the lawyer's mansion. The burglar discovers he is in the house of the lawyer who befriended him. Finally, he promptly brings lawyer and wife together through a clever scheme, and both are reconciled. There are many other tine subjects on the programme including tho Patlie Gazette.