GRAND THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17033, 18 June 1917, Page 8

GRAND THEATRE

The usual Saturday programme at the Grand Theatre drew good audiences. The principal feature was a humanitarian picture called The Locked Door," the theme being the danger incurred in great factories of loss _of life by fire. The story is yery dramatic. There are two workrooms occupying flats one above. the other. One is well managed and equipped and the other is owned by a "screw," who cares not a jot about his employees so long as he gets the utmost out of them. The son of the .pro-, prietor of the well-run place falls in love with the daughter of the proprietor of the other, and this leads to complications that result in both premises being viewed by an officer of the Fire Prevention Bureau. The "screw" takes revenge by setting fire to tho flat above, but the "Grinnell" sprinkler saves the situation. The man's daughter, however, is arrested as a suspect, and he then resolves in his madness to fire the whole building, but is saved the trouble by a cigarette end in his own premises. This lends to an appalling scene, in sharp contradistinction to what occurred where the' sprinkler had been adopted. Good supports accompanied the picture, making up an entertaining and instructive programme."