'JEALOUSY'

Evening Star, Issue 19892, 14 June 1928, Page 2

'JEALOUSY '

LYA DE PUTTI STARRED. ■Tliero are several outstanding features about ‘Jealousy,’ a story'.of newly-married life, winch had a private screening at the- Octagon Theatre yesterday. The acting ot the three leading players is most striking, while the direction and photography are superb.' Jt is a German film, featuring three Continental stars-—namely Lya De Rutti (of ’Varsity fame), Werner Krauss, and George Alexander. The story is delightfully absorbing, every detail being well presented. The husband, the wile, and a friend pay a visit to a theatre to see a play, the author of which is the friend. In the final act the husband strangles his wife in a fit of jealous passion. “That doesn’t happen these days,” tho husband remarks. The woman decides 1 W‘ put her husband to the test to see if he really can withstand the pangs of jealousy. Some time afterwards she receives a bouquet of flowers. A quarrel? begins. Livid with rage, tho husband flings bis watch on the floor,*when it flies open, and the wife, picking it up, ia amazed to find inside the coyer a curl of;golden hair. She immediately plans to be oven with her husband. Tho friend asks her to go to the Palais de Danse, and the husband reluctantly follows. On tho floor of the ballroom the wo : man’s behaviour breaks all hounds. Ho takes her home, so thoroughly disgusted that ho cannot find words to denounce her, therefore remains silent. 1 The next day tho butler puts a letter on tho husband’s desk. ■ His' wife’s jealousy urged her to be indiscreet. Secretely she opens tho letter, ami is horrified at its contents. She hurries immediately to town. . The suspicious and raving husband follows in nor wake, scenting another “ rendezvous.” At last he sees her entering a house. Ho hides on the stairs, and later hears his wife saying goodbye to a child, who calls her “ mamma.” Outraged and indignant at his wife’s conduct, ho returns home, and when she appears, without giving her any chance to explain, knocks her down, "and, mad with rage, attempts to strangle her. At this moment the friend arrives, and endeavours to clear things up.