AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14707, 7 June 1920, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWARDS-FULLERS PICTURES. In ""Human Desire;" Anita Stewart's latest first National feature, screening at the-Opera House this evening the talented star has a. role that is appealing and human. Spurred by a. mystcrious. unconquerable instinct, fiho flees tlio sanctity of her convent home and noes to another country in .search of a- babe to whom her mothering, heart will furnish shell er. There revered by an artist to whom her warm maternal nature is a golden emblem o! the happiness denied him by his own wife, the little Berenice accepts, innocently, the 'realisation of human desire. Then, 011 the return of the wife, comes tragic bitterness to the little mother heart, which almost wrecks her steadfast faith, but in the end she grasps her lasting joy and finds .happiness. The theme of' the story is the contrast between the natural and unnatural mother, imd it' has much to recommend it;' the settings and production are on a lavish scale, and a strong r-aste supports the pomilar little star. The programme v-ill also ineh'd" Picking after Pizarro (Chester scenic) and Pathe Gazette.