ENTERTAINMENTS.
HAYWAHDS PICTURES
For sheer power and grip nothing has ever been produced by Triangle to equal "The Dark Road," to be screened at His, Majesty's Theatre this evening. Some-of'the situations are terrific in their intensity, and their emotional effect will be felt by the most hardened picture-goer. Dorothy Dalton is the star, and in the role of the strange seductive siren whose desires alone are her laws, she does superb work. She is particularly impressive in the last scone, when in the midst of the gorgeous, barbaric settings with which 1 she has surrounded her goddess' Cleopatra, she is relentlessly hunted by her halfcraved husband. The retribution for her wanton conduct is terrible and complete. The photography is is a masterpiece. The interiors of the great English homes, the delightful old-fashioned gardens, and the strange and , wierd luxury of/the apartment of the siren, nro all marvels .of studio-craft, -The story contains flashes of the Great War but they are part of and necessary to the story and. not. oby,ious ? in| terpolations. Robert McKirn as the suave Spanish spy, Jack Livingstone, the betrayed and deceived husband, and' Jack Gilbert as the first victim of the woman, give masterly delineations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9128, 25 October 1917, Page 2
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