AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13047, 10 January 1917, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

HAY WARDS-FULLERS' PICTURES

"The Commanding Officer," tho Famous. Players Film Company's stirring photo, adaptation of tho noted 'military romance, combines in a thrilling and abswbrag manner a novel and varied environment and an original plot that, often attains an intensity of dramatic power and! appeal seldom contained in a. screen play. With the interest of the theme centering about the beautiful young wife of the commanding officer, who is unjustly accused of an immoral deed of -which she is thoroughly guiltTes9, the development of the "plot i c ' marked by a uniformity of merit and, a consistency of suspense that result in a complete conquest of the sympathies of the audience. The difficult and sweetly pathetic role of the misjudged young -wife is entrusted to Alice Dovey. well and' favorably known as one. of the most charming and! gifted ingenues of the contemporary stage. A counterplot of remarkable power adds to tho overwhelming interest of the story. Tlie official war picture. "With Lord Kitchener at the Front," shows Lord Kitchener leaving general headquarters, inspecting brigades of tlib new army in Flanders, the meeting of Lord Kitchener and Sir William Robertson (Chief of the Imperial Staff), and Lord Kitchener leaving for England on a destroyer.