TWO GREAT STARS

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXV, Issue 5607, 22 February 1918, Page 3

TWO GREAT STARS

AT THE LOCAL THEATRE ROYAL THIS WEEK-END One of sensational successes of screen stardom, Peggy Hyland, is seen to perfection in Babette,’’ the Greater Yitagraph drama, to be presented at the Theatre Royal to-night and to-morrow. The story is really ‘‘different.” Its central incident is f'ho marriage of a beautiful French girl to a handsome stranger whom she believes to be a great artist. He really is an artist by instinct, but by chpice he iB oue of the cleverest thieves in all France. He makes a-resolute stand after his marriage and does not succmub to the easier way until his Babette falls ill. Then he gets the money in the old way, and very soon the police are on his track. His real trouble is to keep the truth from his innocent wife, and this he manages to do. A dramatic turn of fate comes to his aid, and the end of the story is full of surprise. The scenes are laid in Normandy, and the artist quarter of Paris, and are full of genuine touches of Bohemianism. The Yitagraph studio artist, too, has introduced some new and clever interiur lighting effects, and the whole production is a credit to the company. Regardless of the former huge at, traction, the management will screen the unequalled dramatic masterpiece, “ Always in the Way,” which production, in itself, would comprise an ample “ draw.’’