AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 31 October 1921, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

HAYWAIID’S PICTURES

“THE KEEPER 01' THE 00011”

Tho wonderful enthusiasm al tending the novels written by Ethel -M. Hell, has been repeated by the production of her novels on the screen, mid the picture-loving public of Nelson have reason to congratulate themselves that the local management have early secured the pieturisutum of -Miss Dell’s latest and most sensational success 1 , "The Keeper of the Door, which will be screened at the Empire Theatre for two nights, commenting this evening. There will bo a special matinee to-morrow afternoon, and the turn! presentation will be. made to-mor-row evening. Peggy Carlisle and Basil Gill, foremost English players, have the leads, supported, by a powerful cast, “They were fated to meet Hunt Goring, a man who boasted that no woman could resist him. Wanting in the garden afterwards he kissed Olga. Indignant, she ran 'away, and in the- library washed the kiss from her lips.” “Say you are engaged to me ; he won’t dare annoy you again,” advised Max. smiling at her distress. They shook hands on the bargain. Later the action of the story moves from England to a restless village on the Indian frontier. Here numerous adveuHires occur, including a plot by the natives to do avyuy with the political resident and his party. The subject of the story is most unusual, and around it a clover plot and a fascinating love story is laid. Ibc him is entirely British, and the huge Ist rides recently made has caused consternation in America where the British productions arc challenging the supremacy of the American. The producers are to be congratulated, on the master!v manner in which they have bandied the subject. The atmosphere of Old England is faithfully introduced by the opening scones depicting Hie ivy covered priory around which ho much action takes place and many glimpses of wood and dell.