HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Patrons of His Majesty's Theatre last evening saw Alice Brady at her best, starring in the World drama, "The Trap." The story was full of dramatic moments yet kept close to the paths of real life. The character of the star's father was drawn in bold rugged lines, yet the portrayal was one which has been, and is still, common among those that tread the sterner ways in cloße touch with life. The father who kept close to the old Testament idea of a just but fearful Providence, who regulated with hardness the smallest moment of a life was the cause of a young girl going among the dangers of a great city. The instinct of truth and right stayed with her until all was resolved by the coming of love. A topical film issued by the British Ministry for Information was especially fine, whether it took the onlookers among the eloquent ruins of Ypres, to the stark shambles of a Eton trench, or to the cloistered seclusion of a Cambridge quadrangle. A lighter element was introduced by the Universal comedy, "The Sign of the Cucumber." .■< The programme will be screened again this evening.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9653, 9 July 1919, Page 3
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