PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10510, 14 February 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

“TI-IE HEART OF SALOME.”

An unusually fascinating story, directed by Auctor Schertzinger, and interpreted by a cast of players o! stellar rank, including the everbeautilul Alma Rubens are features in Fox f ilms latest production, “The Heart of 1 Salome,” which opens at to-dav’s matinee at the Palace. This delightful film concerns the shady doings cf Sir Humphrey, played by Holmes Herbert, master of Big Business, and a beautiful spy known as Diane Mayfield, pjaved by Miss Rubens. “The AJayfield,” as she is known is engaged by Humphrey to obtain the secrets of nis business rivals through her sei'pentlike knowledge oi men’s weaknesses. All goes well with her and her employer until she is shown the reprehensibiiity of her scheming by Henry Roxanne, played by Barry Norton, an artist who falls in love with her, while painting hei as Salome before Herod’s throne Then Monte Carrol, a young American financier, who 1 1 as papers compromising Humphrey, falls in love .with Diane while she is living the simple life in the country. Returning to Paris she is induced by Humphrey to obtain Carrol’s compromising documents, and she does it without knowledge at the time that she was robbing a man who loved her, and whom she had learned to love. Carrol discovers her robbing him and denounces her bitterly. Scorned by the American, she returns to Humphrey and demands that Carrol pay with his life for her humiliation. Humphrey promises to comply. AVha-t follows is a thrilling, gripping series of incidents that held the breathless attention of the audience who witnessed the first showing.