AMUSEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 251, 23 October 1917, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

"GLORIA'S ROMANCE*' AND "SOMEWHERE IN FRA*JCE!."

It is rarely tli.at the management of His MajesT-jy's have- such a .strong programme to offer tlicir patrons'as that to be presented to-night (Tuesday) iniui to-morrow night. Everybody haa been Wii.itiitjc to see Billie Burke in "Gloria's Romance,'' the first episode of which ia to be shown this evening. A review says o>: this picture: "Mr and Mrs Rupert Hughes, the joint authors of this wonderful novel which has been transformed into a still more wonderf-.il film sorial, have constructed a story of complete artistry and thrilling beauty. Tt tells of the youih v womanhood, and- mating of the lovely 'Glori-i Stafford, the wayward tomboy daughter of a New York millionaire. In the first episodes she •is a, high-spirited girl whose restlessness leads .■ her into black trouble. Woven into thes-* first scenes is the first awakening of womanhood in-the girl's heart. This is a living portrait of a real girl's girlhood, «nd Billie Burkes entrancing ' witchery,- her spirited sweetness and flier power of natural but intense emotion are all given full-play." In addition to the first episode of "Gloria's Romance" (two reels), there will be on the same programme a five-reel Triangle play 'entitled "Somewhere in France/ or •'The Vampire Spy." This is a story of the present war. and features Louise Glaum as the German womanspy, with Howard Hickman as the mysterious hero.