WORLD’S PICTURES

Patea Mail, Volume XLVI, 22 August 1923, Page 2

WORLD’S PICTURES

“THE INVISIBLE FEAR’ ’ TO-NIGHT One of the best photoplays of the season, with one of the screen’s most popular stars, is “The Invisible Fear,” starring Anita Stewart. Miss Stewart phtys the part of Sylvia Langdon, who is wooed by two anon. One of them suddenly disappears, and Sylvia believes he has been burned to death in a cabin. Due to an episode which has preceded the lire, she keeps silent the fact that she had seen a body being consumed by the flames, but throughout the years the "invisible fear,” the haunting recollection, is ever present, despite her happy marriage. Then one day the "victim” appears in the midst of a dinner party given in honour of Sylvia’s birthday. Sylvia is so astounded and horror-stricken that she falls under his sway. What follows makes the story strikingly original, teeming with mystery, romance and adventure. On the same programme is Larry Semou in his latest convulsion, in two spasms, "The Sawmill.” Larry goes up to the lumber regions this time, and the pranks he gets into with the big saws and the big lumber jacks. But you had better see it for yourself. "THE GLORIOUS ADVENTURE” TOMORROW NIGHT Set in one of the most romantic periods of English history, "The Glorious Adventure,” starring Lady Diana Manners, will be the big attraction on Thursday night. The story, featuring the romantic days when King Charles 11. presided over the destinies of England, gives the spectator a tapestry in natural colours of the days when the heraldry of England was at its height. The sheen of silk and satin, frill and furbelow is caught in all its colourful richness. Then there is vividly depicted the Great Fire of Loudon, which described in the most gorgeous of tones of colour ,forms a screen spectacle that has never before been equalled. A powerful plot attains its zenith of excitement on that fateful date, Sep term ber 2, IGtiG. Starter in one house by the half-witted tool of a gang of plunderers, the Great Fire of London soon has half London enveloped in flames. The shooting tongues of lire, the terror of the citizens, and the flight for safety —are all presented with remarkable realism. The chief figures in the plot are shown gathered in the basement of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The great structure succumbs, and long will those who see it remember the falling of- great blocks of stone, and the red-hot river of molten load splashing down the walls and across the floors. The characters are of more than usual interest. Lady Diana Manners plays the part of Lady Beatrice Fair, and Cecil Humphreys is Roderick, the silken-gloved villain.