THE PICTURE SHOWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5343, 2 December 1919, Page 7

THE PICTURE SHOWS.

THE PALACE

The final screenings of the successful Paramount programme at the J aiaeci Theatre will be shown to-day at tne matinee and to-night. The big film entitled “The Law of the North, is one of superb grandeur. Its settings are in the Hudson Bay territory m the depth of winter. The dwellings and tlieir primitive fittings and unusual eokl defying contrivances are intensely interesting. The magnificent stretches of snow-covered pine 1 orests and clearings, in which dog-drawn sledges travel have seldom been excelled in travellogue photography and by their perfect screening give the feeling or lonely distances, and grip the audience in the terrible scene of the despairing villain surrounded by a hunger-driven wolf pack. Charles Ray plays the star role as the son of a trader in one of the French Trading Company’s forts, a Canadian trapper, fierce and wild, with the passions of the primitive men who fight with Nature and each other on the rim of the Arctic circle. “The Law of the North’’ is a story ot sudden love, fierce hatred, and the savagery of the strong, a story of a father slam, a daughter abducted, and a son driven by a ,iust- passion to lead the fighting men of the trading post in battle against the enemy stockade. There is terrible ferocity in the picture, but even an enraged man’s nature can be stirred to softness at sight of a lost girl who has lain down to die amidst the snow. The story is a whirl of primitive passions. Probably no more sensational narrative has ever been thrown on the screen. The Australian Gazette contained excellent views of the Ashfield Bowling Club and rowing m Victoria. Billy West in “Her Tenderfeet. and the Mack Sennett comedy. “Cumrt s Day Off,” left nothing undone to please and went with a- healthy rattle. The mid-week change contains a programme of much interest. Ethel Clayton, in the Paramount release “The Girl Who Came Back.” is bracket M with the Fox super-star. George Walsh, in his latest thrilling stunts under a telling title “Brave and Bold.” supported by a Flagg comedy. “Welcome Little Stranger.” and topical?. The box plan is at Muir’s.