PICTURES AND PLAYS.
Maoriland Worker, Volume 8, Issue 324, 9 May 1917, Page 2
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PICTURES AND PLAYS.
"Vera, the Medium," was shown with great su&eess at th* Empres? l.W'fcliugton) on Saturday, and will be on the programme. dl this week. Vera is h woman who through being disappointed on the day oi her marriage becomea a. man hater, and in the plot attempts by magnetic influence to morally ruin a loving , husband and lather because ihv : man publicly snubbed her in ft gambling , house. She. all but succeeds, when , the j better nature of the woman comes upi perinost by the touching- appeal of the I victim's daughter. The story is powerfully told, and, from a scenic viewpoint, magnificently screened. A }jliinps& of Norway, the land of the northern lights* is an added attraction at this theatre, and the glimpse is a credit to the excellence of modern phoographic art. At Everybody's the bill is a revolutionary one. In this screening .entitled "The Americano" Douglas Fairbanks drops down in Panagonia in the midst of civil war, and in a. daring, thrilling way sets things right. '"Gloria's Romance" moves on another stage, and supplies both humor and pathos. "Where Are My Children?" at the King's Theatre is undoubtedly the picture of the season, largely because it is classed as a propaganda one, for it is an appeal to save the nation from racei suicide. As rale, when propaganda; pictures axe placed either on screen or I stage there is an outcry from tie mock ' modest, the voice of the keep-it-dark! psople. But the world is getting -less' (puifltaaieal, and it is realising that menaces to society mast be given publicity, and both screen and stage should be used to instruct and denounce. In I this respect "Where. ,Are My Children;-"! is a picture with, a purpose, and though it deale with a delicate matter nothing offensive is prominently iv thi* fore. Besides, one of tho conditions under which the censor passed the film was that adults only should be admitted to the screening. The picture, too, hae an economic side, for abortion, its theme, though used by tbe poor in distress, i.s practised nio&tly by the idling class for loasans almost .the reverse. The Braudoii-Oreluw Dramatic Company are to open in the Grand Gp&ra { House, Wellington, next Saturday, with ! a drama that has drawn crowded ■ wherever played, "The Fatal Wedding."; The season ia to last for five weak.';, and ! amongst the othei , is that i of "Th« Silvev v pby that the! late George Titlneradge i&*s helptd to? make renowned. "The Fa'.'il .Wedding" and "The STlvtr Kin.g" will be pro-i (iuced by arrurjgfcttKsiit with ./. C. AVilliamsoii, Ltd. Money in picture snq.ws. The lnte | Thomas Ve.st, who founded tho high-i classed "W*e<t Picturss-'' of Sydney, did? well at the busine* , . and'in deparh'u?! left X'W.OOU behiud him. Tun [jromineiit. Uit-atrk-uld in Mica Janet Achuroh find Mr. Harold Ashton Itave Iruiu Liiv'-f ■Aα** uuj passwi into the G.e.it Siltiuvt-. Miss Achurch came to ULiUuli.i five , untl Uwnf.y years ago, and' iv tho Critorion Theatre, Sydney, produced Tleunk. Ibsen's "A lioll'i House." -Mr. Ashton, whr.so name was Jordan, went from joiH-nalit-Ji , . into tin? [inn of Messrs.; .1. i.'. WillnuiHoa and (.'o., und iv by-' 'juirn y.Vi'.rs often toured New Zealaud as uu official' ot'v'this enk-rprising firm. Pied Storey, almost tho lust of the famous Leaden Gakty Company %, A t •Mtuf: to Australia, is a seigeaut lv the ""Somewliere." Fiwi ia 57; &ud ,v»t|
hi "%jii | ~m> *%, %)i <%x ''j I r , I they- pasesd-him. Alas, liis pals whc { Xjairited and powdered and put back tbe , years, aro under the sod—Nellie Farreu, Frwl Leslie and Charles Danby—and i their places shall know them no more. ; _,__^^ J^.,._M ,, ! i
