AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1919, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

EMFWJS THEATKE. , f -*""1 ' Tike, popular novelist, B. W. Cham* {ten, ig the author of l |ia vit seraph drama, “The Wohian Between Friend*, shown at -Hayward’s Pic ures on Saturday evening, when many were un* able to gain admission, the Empire being packed long before H o'clock. 'Briefly, the story tells of a sculptor 'and' an artist who swore eternal friend* ship on the eve of the sculptor's marriage. But before very lolig the artist ran away with hi„ friend's wife, and id due course tired ot her, with the desalt that she became an outcast and eventually was killed l«a an accident which her husband witnessed. The artist, in the meantime, mepts a young girl, whose part is played by Alice Joyce, He introduces her to the sculptor, who for the first time learns fronj, • chance remark that .it the artist Who had robbed him of hjs wife. He j then decides to be revenged and ex* tracts a promise from the artist that K* Will commit suicide on a certain J date/V |n the end he relents and tries to nave hi# faleo friend. H«w in the end the sculptor loves and is loved by t&e. yopng girl, and how he relents to* hV false friend, makes an in* Ipppely stirring finish to a story which V; fpll of action from first, to last. There are some very beautiful geenes and the peaceful ending after 'be stress o£,emotion is very pleasing. The cijr* Instalment of ‘"The Mystery of I thVT>ouble Crose” the excite* ment to a high pitch. Thp programme Will be repeated 1 this evening, when The-.Two (filberts, whose comedy has made such a hit during the pajit week at'both theatres, will make their fare* weft appearance.