THE LYCEUM

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3490, 28 October 1926, Page 3

THE LYCEUM

“TILE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT.” Sir Noel Barchestor was a stern uncompromising guardian of this Trust which dominated the whole existence of the Barchestor household. Lady Barchester had long since relapsed into mute acquiescence, iMarian was punctilious in the manner of her father, hut Ruth, his older daughter, was a passive resistor. It was inevitable that a crisis should arise between Sir Noel and Ruth, and it came about through her association with Jack Lynton, a gallant officer in the Great War, but now a gentleman of undistinguished leisure. Ruth refused to be chained to outworn creeds and left home. By 11 ton wanted to marry, but she sent him away to learn to work, and, in the meanwhile, she herself went on the stage. In time, she became a popular actress, but Sir Noel and Marian had forgotten her as one dead. The curtain fails on a griefstricken old man. once the proud guardian of the unsullied name of the Barcheslers; a daughter happy with her sweetheart only because she had shaken off the shackles of an outworn creed; and a woman, her sister, condemned as the transgressor of the unwritten commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Be Found Out,” known as the “'Eleventh Commandment” to. bo screened at the Lyceum to-night. ■ Coming; To-Morrow —“Hoot” Gibson In the “Phantom Bullet.” ‘The Phantom Bullet,” the Univer- I sal-Jewcl, to bo presented at the I Lyceum to-morrow for the week-end. is the peer of Western pictures. It! is well directed, has plot and good. characterisations, beautiful photography and is headed by “Hoot” Gibson, greatest Western star in motionpictures. The hero, Tom Farlano. j played by Gibson, seeks the slayer of his father. In order to allay suspicion in- masquerades as a gentle, lady-like city chap. His apparent innocence and unworldincss lull the unsuspecting villains and after a series of extraordinary adventure, the climax is reach-j ed. An unusual plot centres about j the photographic proclivities of the; hero. His camera is omniscient and at least one particularly villainous crime is solved by its means. I