AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3491, 20 May 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THE KING'S.

“A. GIRL AT BAY.”

“A Girl at Bay’ is the title of the ‘latest Vitagraph~- picture that stars’ Corinne Griffith the attractive littleé performer, whose work lately has-: placed her in the forefront of popular" screen stars.- This clever detective-.. story was adapted -from Joseph GOl-~ lomb’s magazine story, “Hunt the? Woman,” and the mystery elemenfis complete and absorbing until the final. reel. In the role ;of Mary ‘Allen Blake, Corinne Griffith shows a. clever ‘girl’ determined to elude the sleuths‘ on: her tracks. She secures employment; as private secretary of the Judge whose brother she is suspected of"murdering. She reasoned that her boldness would deceive the detectives in search of her. Her daring leap from a. fast moving train is but} one .of the many narrow escapes until she is finally at bay. But in the meantime she had married the brother of the man she was accused of murderingAnd she had no defence to offer as. she believed herself guilty. The final outcome is told in a -dramatic manner and the photo-play is. heralded as be- " 1113 replete°Witll the thrills of the: chase with deep mystery until the" last. ‘a \-