HIS MAJESTY'S—"A TALE OF TWO CITIES."
I Of all the films which have been produced since the cinematograph became 'such an important part pf our daily life, none caii . compare, in the, opinion of those, best qualified to judge, with Wilv Ham . Fox's , .triumphant masterpiqCeT^he film version* of Charles Dickens' immortal'. romance, "A Tale of Tavo Cities," Which will be. presented at His Majesty's fiiis evening.* Tho great actor William Farnum plays a dual role i^; .the wonderful .drama,, and. his portrayal of the soft-spoken . aristocrat Charles Darnay, and the .devil-may-care, dissolute Englishman Sidney Carton, is said to be one of; the classic-examples of screen acting, ln a notable cast Jewel Carmen 'appears as Lucie Manette. Tlie story told on the screen shows Lucie, tlie daughter of a French physician, who has .been imprisoned in the Ba6tille because'lie knew some secrets of an aristocratic .family, living,, ;in England. Hearing of her father's escape, she crosses to France to see him, and on the Avay meets Charles Darnay, son of the man who had sent her father to the Bastille. Darnay is arrested in England as a spy, but is saved'by'Sidney Carton, through the remarkable resemblance of the two men. Lucie, Darnay, ancl Carton become firm friends. : Darnay wins the girl's love and marries her, but Carton, who', also.loves her, hides liis grief and continues the friend of both. The French. Revolution breaks out in all' its fury., and Darnay. aoes back to save his fajtjier's servant from the mob. He is- arrested by the Republican Guards and thrpwn into prison, but Lucie's father,- now a popular idolj -Saves him and secures his release.' Lucie goes to him, but Darnay is re"^—M»"" '. ■■■—■ ,\ " —i- i, f- i- , ,1,, | „. i __________
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 5
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