EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1917, Page 4

EVERYBODY'S.

A MOTION PICTURE MASTERPIECE ROBERT H. CHAMBERS' "THE GIRL PHILIPPA." "Play the baby—do you hear —eyes wide and artless and so on," growled Wildresse. "That is not difficult," said the girl Philippa. "When I lose my innocence then it will mean real acting." Anita Stewart, in this great film play, shown to a full house at Everybody'? last night, thus replies to the fiendish master spy who has her in his power. From a vivid and splendid novel by R. W, Chambers, the Greater Vitagraph Company have made a drama which is the high-water mark of picture achievement. The war scenes in it are terrific, grimly realistic, and nothing more aweinspiring and appalling has been put upon the screen than the bombardment of the quiet French village by the Huns. Shells are seen to fall and explode, wrecking buildings whose walls topple and fall, crushing villagers and soldiers) indifferently. In tho smoky-laden atmo. sphere struggling figures are seen, fighting with dreadful energy. Tho story is bewilderingly beautiful, the love mance in itself being a problem of passion charmingly set and heart-breaking in intensity. Anita Stewart has a role which gives every scope for her captivating charm, and the rest of the east is strong and good. "The Girl Philippa" will be screened again to-night and to-morrow night,