AMUSEMENTS

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6599, 14 May 1925, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES “LILY OF THE DUST” ON SATURDAY Who was the beautiful woman who smiled bravely while her stern-look-ing husband, clad in the uniform of an officer of high rank, slowly closed his fingers in a vice-like grip over her bare arm? Diners crowding the tables of a fashionable cafe in a European city who witnessed this little act of cruelty exhausted their imaginations in speculation concerning the identity of the pair. When the woman, superb in a gown of black velvet, rose from the table, all eyes followed her as she swept from the room. This scene occurs in “Lily of the Dust,” Pola Negri’s latest starring picture for Paramount produced by Dimitri Buchowetski, to be screenat the Theatre Royal on Saturday afternoon and evening next. Pola plays the part of the wife, and Noah Beerey that of the officer. The story which lies behind this little tragedy in the dining room, is one of the most dramatic and fascinating which has ever been made into a motion picture film. /