THREE STARS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 August 1917, Page 4

THREE STARS

Miss Emmy Wehlen, who scored such a decided.success in "Her Reckoning" is seen to even greater advantage in "The Pretenders." Miss "Wehlen has brought to the screen all the charm and magnetic personality that made her the popular Queen of the London Gaiety Company. She is famous for her beauty and talent, and is destined to become one of the most pleasing of picture stars. As Helen Pettingill in "The Pretenders" she has an opportunity to show her many-sided versality; as the little country mouse, or the social climber when riches come; as the shy but happy beloved of a nobleman, or as the unhappy girl who finds high life not so high as it should be she is perfection; An artistic classical dance is introduced, revealing Miss Wehlen V ability and charm, along altogether different lines. • The play is set, for the most part, in the fashionable quarter of New York, and in the Adirondacks, the mountain summer resort of the well-to-do, and the people are those who have money and those who are trying to get it away from them. There is not a dull minute in the whole production; the story is wonderfully absorbing, love dominates it, beauty radiates through lit,, and money oils its wheels of progress. Altogether, it is one of the most pleasing and successful Metro Wonder-plays that has been produced for some time.' An excellent number of the new scenic topicals, views in and around Cape Cod and the famous fishing villages show many quaint people, house customs in an extremely quaint country. A little bit of the world tucked away from the busy rush of the new. The second partlshows the splendid and up-to-date methods of a famous girls' Training School, in which the cult of the openair is taught. A most interesting, and, at the same time, entertaining picture.