TO-NIGHT’S PICTURES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 354, 14 February 1917, Page 6

TO-NIGHT’S PICTURES.

EVERYBODY’S, HASTING

"Jaffery,” the International ( 11 Eagle’’ photoplay which was snown to a good audience last night will be screened again to-night lor the last tune, YVilliam J. Locke wrote the popular novel ot that name with lus seiK.o.uiaie and 1 ile-long friend, V. Aubrev Smith m fits mind, and when he agreed that the book be pictured lie insisted that Mr. Sinitn should play the part. As Jaffery Clievne, war correspondent and soldier oi fortune, the distinguished English actor gives a splendid interpretation or the character. Ihe production is staged m a most icihstK ni u t some oi tin sea scenes being reaLv wonderful. Although the picture is a long one, I'cciipving 6 acts, there is a- sustained appeal throughout and the attention ot tne audience is gripped from beginning to end. -J nose who have read the book should not miss this himl opportunity ot seeing the picture. there will be a change ol programme to-mor-row night including ’ ihe Immigrant, featuring I aleska buratt. .KJNGs IHI YjRL, HAsriM 8 Winsome Alice Bradv tin? World I ilm Coroporation s star in the pastoral drama, is the dainty heroine oi the powerful and thriving iom rn. “Tangled Fates,” the attraction at the King s Theatre to-night. The story opens in the narrow atmosphere ot a country town, where two sisters lead barren and colourless lives under the •stern dicipline of their puritanical father, who is chairman of the towns Moral Committee. A harinli s indis cretion of the younger sister places her in a compromising position from whicn she is shielded by tne elder, who takes the blame and is banished from her home. The scene changes to a great city, where the heroine marries a worthless fellow who afterwards leaves her and goes to the goldfields of Alaska, where are enacted the most sensational incidents of the play. The husband leads a dissolute lite, and mak< s a de id ly enemy. They quarrel and the husband shoots the other. The miners round him up, and his wife arrives too late to save him from lynching. But the story has a happy ending, tor the man whom she really loves claims her for his own. The supporting tcatiuc are the newest topical, “Jerry's Masked Ball” (comedy), and a scenic. "Hon Fleur” (France).

MUNICIPAL THEATRE, HAMIMb

Ihe cluet item on an attractive programme at this theatre this evening is the picturisation by William 1-ox oi Allred Sutro s great play "Ihe Walls oi Jericho." which ran ior years at the Garrick I heat re. London and one year at the .Hackett Theatre New York. Ihis storv oi Enghsn social life is a message—a warning ter imxlern civi.izat.ion against the decadence ol its very foundations, it is a clarion blast against gambling dissipation and tendencies just as injurious to <unsocial being. Ihe story revolves about a sell-made millionaire who marries a ladv oi Roval birth whose-associates in the smart set almost lead her to destruction. Jhe work or Mr. Edmond Breeze and Miss Clair Witnev who respectively h.l the roles or Jack Frobisher and his wire is admirable. In either, ease the parr claims much experience in characterization, a line sense oi judgment and great care in rendering to give those fine touches incidental to a trinhiul vet intimate rendering oi tin soil il pniit <. tv i i i i a i 1 self-made man. and a flightv ultrafetninine society woman. There is another splendid drama in support ot tins feature entitled ".*1 "Woman s Heart" and a splendid cornedv entitled "Henrv s Little Kid. Ihe Topical Journal is one or the very latest and contains many items oi interest.

PRINCESS THEATRE, HASTINGS. Lois Weber’s strikingly beautiful allegory “The Hypocrites,” to be shown to-night at the Princess Theatre, tells the story of a monk who carved in the secrecy of his cell a statue of wonderful beauty, in the nude, which he called Truth. An ignorant populace mocked the statue when it was unveiled, shattered it, and killed the monk for what was to them the crime of immodesty. Thus is truth mocked and decried all the world over. From the fragments of this masterpiece then arises the spirit of Truth, who goes out into the world and holds up the mirror to society, politics, religion, and the home. Margaret Edwards, in the role of Truth treats her delicate pose with a chasteness and refinement that places the production beyond the criticism of those whose baser instincts can see nothing but immodesty in the undraped figure. An interesting variety of supporting items complete the programme.