AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS A Picture Benefit will be tendered by Mr. A. C. Nicholls in aicT of Baby Week, when a first class programme will be shown, headed by the star picture, "The Criminal," The story is a pathetic one of a girl born outside' the social pale in, Italy who becomes an immigrant to New York, Miss Williams' Mith her>d£rk eyes. aif<J hair is.ideal for the role, and she plays with .great power //and , pathos, jh /the central,situation of the play has to do w T ith the kidnapping of a baby, and the suspicion that is cast upon the heroine' who has adopted a poor waif left in the cheap tenement in which she lives. William Desmond as Donald White, the young, writer, who comes by chance upon the heroine, is seen in his best part jo date. He shows a saving sense of "humour which lightens the heavy tragedy which surrounds his little girl friend. The photography is in Triangle r sjbest §tyle, and thjH.supporting: east more than usually good.