EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

NZ Truth, Issue 568, 6 May 1916, Page 2

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

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The world famous G. W. Griffiths ab a producer has gained recognition through hia big colossus, ''The Birth of a Nation," and it is -quite an event m local picture circles to be able to announce that a 5000 ft. absorbing drama, acted and arranged under his masterly theatre supervision '. -will bo shown at Everybody's on Monday. "'The [Lamb" Is a Triangle- Griffiths picture, and it

. (Public Accountant, Wellington). The office boy who steals the stamps The clerk who poles tha cash, The bloke who dotos on one pound notes And with open choquea gets msh, On all who play this double game Our clever Km. sheets home the blame.

tells m a sensational moving picture way J about the cowardice of a wealthy New Yorker, who, strive as he may, when '\ danger Is threatened betrays a weakness of character that allows the craven to appear. Proceeding to the west to live down his imputation, and while out on the plains he and hla finances are surrounded by a horde of. savage Sioux, Gerald Harrison, although his knees knocked together and his teeth/ chattered with fear, sticks it out and fights Ilk© a tiger until all danger la over, and his sweetheart Is saved from a fate worse than death, Thua does he come into his own again* "The Uuub" as portrayed by Pouglas Fairbanks, the beauty uoior, IB admirably h;v»di«d; all ih<» phases of fear and despair being graphically depleted, and the part standa out with his delineation of the manifold traits In a man's nature. Miss X**ona Owens, the beautiful and charming actress, admirably supports Mr. Fairbanks, and it is due to her to say that her acting and method lift the "play out of the ordinary sphere of picturedom. The realism displayed In the battle scene lias never been equalled, and the various exciting incident* introduced show that this absorbing play curt-lan the hallmurk of the GrlllUhs production. /