GRAND AND PLAZA THEATRES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18323, 13 August 1921, Page 12

GRAND AND PLAZA THEATRES

capital orchestra plays m the evening.

An exciting picture dealing with the manner in which Bolshevist cmissiaries endeavour to overthrow nations and to break and cripple industry, entitled “ The i Face 1 at Your Window,” was presented to largo houses at the Grand and Plaza Theatres yesterday. The plot is laid in an American town, and concerns two manufacturers, one a man who does justice by his employees and the other an employer who seeks to make his workmen staves. The central character is Ruth Krayo, a young mill worker who is in love with her employer’s son, Frank Maxwell, and, who, accused of attempting to murder her lover, is prevented from clearing herself by the fact that she possesses knowledge of - the secret means adopted to overthrow a plot of alien agitators against the bnited Mates Government. The town of Boonton,. m which the action is centred, is a, typical American manufacturing community, 00 miles from New York. Its thriving factories and busy streets make it an ideal location for the thrilling scenes of riot and pillage which arc incidents m the picture. During the screening of the picture the inhabitants of the town were kept awake by the roar of cannon and the fiHlo of rifle and machine gun fire. A , Urge number of searchlights illuminate the streets and fighting mobs strive for the victory. Factory buildings and huge manufacturing plants were .wrecked and burned by the maddened agitators, urged on by envoys of the Soviet Government The moral of the picture is. that C-apitel and Labour must co-operate m the interests of the human race. The scenes are most vivid, and reflect great credit on the produeers The love story of the factory girl and the rich man’s son is brought to a. satisfactory conclusion A good list of supports include episode Bof the Diamond Oueen” serial, an enjoyable Sunshine comedy, a cartoon, and a Fox and Aus-