Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 143, 4 November 1912, Page 3

Stratford News

From Our Resident Reporter.

BERNARD'S PICTURES

Maurice Costello, the popular picture actor, is the lawyer hero in "The Spider's Web;' a Vitagraph drama which is to be screened at His Majesty's Theatre to-night. The plot is woven by an affluent gang of bogus company promoters and purveyors of salted mines and tlic like, who oust a not, in the intricacies of which the lawyer's unsuspecting father (and his. money) become involved. It is while acting the part of a barrister defending his father 011 charges of serious commercial malpractices, which follow in the train ot his speculations, that Costello is seen at his best. ' The drama is of the solid orthodox type, and is not spoilt by any impossible situations. The Luna Company is to the fore with a very powerful dramatic subject, with many intense situations, in the shape of "Love's Revenge." The theme is distinctly out of the ordinary. A woman marries the murderer of her husband, whose villainy is known only by herself, with the. express purpose of achieving revenge by ruining him.'' How she succeeds not only in ruining him, but in causing him in the end to take his own life, is a story tragically and cleverly told. The pro-' gramme includes a delightful scenic picture, "The Milk Stream, Bellano," with its foaming and awesome cascades. A feature of the programme is the iilnr showing the marvellous feats in learning and industry attained hy Woolcott Coom'bes' phenomenal deaf and "blind boy. Other attractive films are the latest number of the Gaumont Graphic (replete with world-wide happenings), and several comics. As regards the latter, special mention must be made of "The Tin-can Rattle," descriptive of the wiles resorted to by an editor-proprietor of a way-back newspaper in order to evade the demands of his creditors.