AMUSEMENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13859, 20 April 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWARD 'S-FULLER 'S. 'PICTURES

Most of the villains we have liad i In photoplays from the very beginning of the film industry have been the ( "utter" villains of tradition. They: have been bad just on general principles. Douglas Fairbanks, however,! has conie to the rescue with an innovation in "The Good-bad Alan," Triangle-Fine Arts feature Which he; wrote himself, .-anil in which he is j Btarred, . Tlio bad man here is a most likeable young chap, whose depredations. take eccentric channels. For instance, he'hold? up the Pacific. Limited and robs the conductor of. his ticket punch. Again, lie holds up the town grocer and. robs him -lof quantities, of, food wliichMie bestows upon a friendless .little orphan who lives tin the outskirts of civilisation. The reason is that "Passin' Through," as lie calls himself for want, of. a better name, has no idea who his father was.. Therefore, he !is an enemy to society, who would make him an outcast. In the course of tho -stirring action of 'the play, "Pasoiil 1 Throughlearns that his. father wqs.honourably married to his mother, and that his parentage was regular in every respect.