EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1917, Page 8

EVERYBODY'S.

CLARA KIMBALL YOUXG IX ''THE COMMON LAW." That circumstances may arise which would justify a cultured and moral man and woman in ignoring the legal side of marriage and joining their lives under tht common law ;s the theme on which Robert W. Chambers built one of the most successful novels of recent times. The heroine of the story. Valerie West, is a girl who would grace any position in society. Slic becomes an artist's model through force of circumstances, and, meeting a young painter, falls in love with him. Her love is returned, but (.wing to his social connections, Valerie is convinced that a marriage would ruin his career, So she offers herself in love to the man of her heart and sets the day on which she is to come to him under the Common Law. The ensuing complications create a series of highly dramatic situations that lend themselves particularly well to picturisation. With Clara Kimball Young in the role of the philosophical heroine, and Conway Tearlc as the artist, the picture ranks high among the greatest photo-dramas yet, made. There will be four more screenings of "The Common Law" in New Plymouth, this afternoon at 2.30, to-night at 8, to-morrow afternoon at 2.30, and for the last occasion to-morrow night. Seats for cither performance can be reserved at Colliers'.