FULLERS' PICTURES.
The new programme a.t His Majoity's Theatre for to-night (Monday) and to-ato-rrow night is headed by a Vitagraph drama entitled "Vampire of the Desert," the story of a beautiful and bewitching sorceress ■whose insatiable' desire proves to be lobv own undoing. On the edge of the desert lives Hagar with her son Tshmael. With them lives Lispeth, the Vampire, who plays upon the feelings of Ishinael. Lispeth persuades .William Corday, a wealthy banker, to take her away from Hagar. la the beautiful kome of the Cbrdays, Lispeth becomes a' new being, and has Corday entirely under her spell. One -day he beseeches Lispeth to fly with him, and is overheard by his son, Derrick. LispotJi tells Derrick that it is toe, and not his father, whom she loves. She at last arranges to elope with the elder man. Ar they are teavmg the house Derrick ' enters, budrionly Tshmael appears, and taking Lispeth .fw>m the two wondering men, he forces, her to return with JK m V Back again at ncr desert home, ; -the ,\;ampire ■ thauwq herself down ■ de-* .spond^itly • iij>stj-tiie .ground.- - lish'mael', mi;a burst ql maniacal/fury ,' thrusts '■•S 8 lllf^ infcatl^« prostrate form of ■ Ahe woman, and- all w over. :' -
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1914, Page 8
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202FULLERS' PICTURES. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1914, Page 8
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