THREE STARS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 11 August 1916, Page 4

THREE STARS.

“THE DERBY WINNER.” To-night heralds the sreening of the London Film Company’s picturisation of the famous military and sporting drama, Drury Lane’s big success, “The Derby Winner, ’’ which was such a boom when Bland Holt’s Dramatic Company played it through the Dominion twenty years ago. The play has a military strain running right through its various scenes; the plot hinges on the fortunes of Lord and Lady Desboroughj The production has a special interest to the Dominion, as Miss Eva Balfour, who is well known in this country, has the principal part in “The Derby Winner.” Miss Eva Balfour went Home to try her fortune on the legitimate stage, and after various ups and downs in the provincial towns; she achieved success and became a star in leading London theatres. The London Film Coompany, recognising her worth, engaged her for this production, and critics pronounce her as equal to the best actress that has ever essayed the difficult part of Lady Muriel. The play is brimful of incidents, which rivet the close attention of the audience, and the culminating sensation is a realistic 1 repesentation of historic 'Ascot, which shows Lord Desborongh’s horse Clipstcne, winning the English Derby, and thus restoring the fortunes of the Desborough family.