LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 382, 16 June 1928, Page 16

LYRIC

“I WILL REPAY” One of Baroness Orczy’s stories of the Scarlet Pimpernel has been filmed, and the picture, entitled “I Will Repay,” is now being; shown at the Lyric Theatre. This picture is a British production and th€' leading: players are admirably east and give fine portrayals of their parts. The story is laid in the stirring days of the French Revolution. A young and beautiful girl, Juliette, seeking revenge for the death of her brother, who was killed in a duel with a lawyer named Deroulede, contrives to be invited into Deroulede’s house. While there she secured some incriminating documents, and betrayed Deroulede to the authorities as a traitor. Her hatred. however, had turned to love and she burned the papers. She told the soldiers the ashes were of love letters and, no papers being found, she was arrested for the slander of a deputy. Came the trial with the great, cruel, fickle mob dominating the scene, and the demand of the prosecution for the public disgrace and life imprisonment of Juliette. Deroulede had meanwhile become aware of Juliette’s treachery, but the memory of the brother he had unwillingly laid low, pity for the frail girl so courageously expatiating her offence, and most of all burning love, impelled him to take a hand in the grim drama. He boldly declared that the prisoner had lied to save him; that the burned papers were not love letters, but the written evidence of his own treason. Juliette bravely stuck to her story, and the Judges were disposed to believe her—for how, they asked. did the ashes come to be in Juliette’s room? Just when it seemed too late, however, the two are saved by Sir Percy Blakeney, known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. A second feature is also being shown, entitled “Broadway Billy,” and starring Billy Sullivan in an unusual and exciting boxing story. Patrons of the Lyric Theatre will be interested t% know that pictures of Ivingsford Smith’s great flight across the Pacific will be shown at the Lyric Theatre on Tuesday and on succeeding evenings. SHOWS