EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 April 1917, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S.

FOX FILM SCORES DRAMATIC TRIUMPH. "A WOMAN'S TEMPTATION." An intense dramatic picture was presented to u crowded house- at Everybody's last evening. The film in question is a Fox super-feature, "A Woman's Temptation," from the hook /'Anna Karenina," by Count Leo Tolstoi. It is not easy to deal with so vast a topic as that presented by Anna Karenina in a few words. But, briefly stated, the plot is as follows:—"Alexis Karenina, seerotary of state to all the Russias, is married to Anna, a. creature of impulse, warm, passionate, and beautiful. Alexis, on the other hand, is a pillar of society. Cold, correct, and a model of statesmanship. Judging from his frigid exterior, one would never dream that deep in his soul slumbers a mighty love for his beautiful wife. The couple have only one child, whom they both equally idolise. In fact, it is only when with his son that Alexis allows his stern nature to relax. One day Prince Wronsky, a handsome and dashing young cavalry officer, enters into their lives. From the first there is a mutual attraction between Wronslty, who is as unscrupulous as he is attractive, and the neglected Anna. Their friendship rapidly ripens into love. Alexis, cold and dignified on the surface as ever, yet suspects and suffers tortures of jealousy without unsealing his lips. He waits and watches. Then the crash comes. In a tremendous scene, the husband at last unlatches the flood-gates of his soul, and, heaping denunciation upon the woman who has I betrayed him, drives her and her lover I from-his house forever. But the child he retains. Anna and Wronsky at firs" I are happy together. But a revulsion of feeling soon sets in; Wronsky finall, abandons Anna. Too late, she realises ithat no matter how she may suffer, woman may not defy the law."