WOMAN

Evening Star, Issue 17087, 4 July 1919, Page 7

WOMAN

M*urioo Tonmeur'a dramatic wk ' Woman ' will no doult attract considerable attention at Haywards' and King- Edward Theatres., where it will be screened this evening. 'The tale begins in the Garden of Eden, where Adam, is seen an his quest for Eve. Tho first -episode reaches a climax in Eve's itheft of the forbicMer:. apple and the subsequent ejection from the garden. ■» The second episode deals with tho Roman era., the third witn the early life in Prance, the fourth with tih* fishing life in Brittany, the fifth with the War of Independence in America, lho prokxrue and the epilogue portray modem life in a largfl citv. The interest of the play is mainly psychological. By contrast with women of all the different neriods of 'history, the woman, ot to-day stands out as being no whit less heroic than and possosstng equal beauty to the ladies of bygone ages. The film production: is in many ways remarkable, lnougii composed of. incidents from the lives of all the principal women of history, it is so cleverly constructed that there is no apivwnt lack of continuity. This fine production does not fall into any one class. It is not a melodrama. While it has plenty of physical action, its keynote is mental. Neither is ' Woman ' a spectacle. ' Woman' is not allegorical. There is nothing symbolical about the author's study of women's development through the tvges. Each instance chosen to be presented is dire/t, vigorous, straight from the shoulder drama, except in the instances of the Adam and Eve episode and the Brittany Eeacoast fairy tale. The latter is fantasy of the most delicate texture. A firll supporting programme wall bo shown dn. conjunction.