AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 20 February 1920, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

' .HARVARD’S PICTURES, “ON TRIAL.” “On Trial,” again shown to a large attendance aft .last nigh 1 ', is pure melodrama, ary probably no picture of so startling a type has ever previously been shown without raising the price. The plot is woven by a master hand through a maze of intricate spinning and carefully conceived’ situations. The play is built in a novel form, and the many changes of scene are a tribute to faultless direction Starting with a murder, the trial of the .suspected man is shown, and the evidence, the chain of events leading to the crime, are enacted' 'before your eyes. The plot is worthy of Gaboriau. May Strickland is the victim of a vile schemer -as agirl; she finds she has again; to pay the same price to [him years after to protect her husband and her child? Who would mb sympath i»e with her agonised husband, who sot 01$, frantic, at nigh, to avenge the honour of the wife he loved? Ihe climax culminates in scenes of wUd enthusiasm in the court* where the hero ia declared “not gn'l'y. ’ after you had given up ail hope of seeing him disentangled fro™ the web of evidence surrounding him. Ihe cast includes Barbara Castleton, Sydney Ainsworth, and little Mary McAihtev. Tonight will be the final screening

EMPIRE THEATRE

“MICKEY.” What is claimed tb be one of the biggest picture plays to date, vicing in costly production with D. W. GnfHth s ■masterpiece, is “Mickey,” Alack Sen neH',o, first special with the title role expressly written for the inimitable Mabel Normand'. The New Zea.and (Tights for “Mickey” have been acquired at considerable cost by the International Attractions, and it will be released local ]y for the first time at the Em p t Theatre on Monday aj> 8 p-m., ai ct again on Tuesday at 2.30 and 8 p-m. The modern day audience, surfeited wdh war films and spy melodramas, "i-f welcome “Mickey,” which is a digest oi the science of fi -m P lod J c has everything imaginable by a P She*-, p£« or present, to pub thr 11s into films and project the screen- Probably a thud ot fi footage is devoted to opportum .es Mlsr Nomiand to breeze through s *• of Mmdnelv laughable incidentals, &he proves herself the feminine ccmceiitraied Lena of a Chaplin Tairbaidts comb na tion of b’tmour and agddy. Her fcra. P oi the subtleties ot screen -mUng l ave never* I been equalled in A-n.»“n dom Her expressive eye s ami moor (countenance responded to a th „ n j “\iirkev became a living U1 "“ u perfonality, vivified * ** of & adorable creature. Special mirsm accompanies Theatre. An plan is open aj the E 1 , a( tendance idded attraction, will lie the S?the 12th Regiment Band.