AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 165, 10 July 1918, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

The gaol-wedding scene in "The "World Again l : t TT-ini."* the melodrama to be shown at live Theatre 'Royal to night;- i* s'trangely dramatic. The bridegroom has t.een chosfti solely be cau;e he i«. under the- -.-•iMi'terwe <>f death, and because the marriage. wf 1 give the liridy a fortune. The t-itory i* as follows: Mark West fall:* in love with, a society belle. Alice R.idgw ay, who flirts with him, and then becomes •engaged to a famous surgeon, Dr Welsh, .Mark West haw a young astd ■crippled sister, and he saves up enough money to take her to Dr Welsh. The latter tr : es an operation that ho knows will probably kill the little girl. She dies,, and Mark, finding out the truth and blind with fury, rushes to the doctor's offi'-e and kills the a sLstant. He is tried and condemned to dieaith. Alice Ridgway has been left .a fortune on the condition' that she marries •within three days. and. her fiancee having gone West, Mark is approached. He consents-, the marriage is performed, and 'the bridegroom escapes. Tt can. be imagined from the foregoing how thrilling • the remainder of the ctoryj .'which ends well, must be. The acting of E. K. Lincoln i s superb, and nothing too good can be said of June El-ridge. That great serial ' ; The Iron Claw," will be. concluded to-night. This if eat lire has now run for five month?., without a dull chapter. and ■aii . la-Fit the mystery of '"Who is the Laughing Ma?k?" appears about to be solved. The latest Topical- are also listed.

HAY WARD'S PiCTURES. Melbourne McDowell, who was "Black Jack" in "The Flame of the Yukon," will appear at Hayward's Pictures to-night/ in. the Triangle photoplay, "The Bond of Fear.'* His role is the> judge,•-'. who mercilessly seroten es a ma« to-. tvyertty years' hard ■labour, and then; the same night finds' himself a fugitive;: fr»m the law. McDowell gives a •wonderful piece of powerful and intensely dramatic acting. To the heroine special attention- mufti be paid, -as she isfihe hew .star accession' to the Triangle forces has created such interesit; in .American film circles. This is Belle- Bennett-, a beauty who possesses quite unusual charm and emotional force. her is also ißiov Stewart. the actor chosen by Triangle to play ah important role. Tn addition to the above star film 'there will also be shown "The Oirre," the latent MntualChap'in, 2000 feet' of the craenee of this, extraordinary personality's fastest furo-ma-klng. His nerve» wrecked owing- to- dissipation, he goes >(o a sanatorium tu get- cured. He takes with him his trunk, which ds a, woefully popular article very promptly in the home. It is packed with bottles of every comforting brand, and their discovery V'« one of the finest- '"screams" ever perpetrated. Charlie's' efforts to wrap himself round a glass or two of the nar=ty health waters are wel'/ worth ■watchinrig-,; and Ids adventures in the Turkish bath chambers are a series -- * laugh-getters. This is genuinely the best of Chaplin's productions to date.