PERMANENT PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

PERMANENT PICTURES.

To-night at the Empire Theatre the principal attraction, will be a Fox: fihn of an unusual kind,, entitled • "Blazing Love." To please her father/ Margaret Walsh, Avho is young and 'beautiful, becomes the wife of Morgan Delaiield, who is twice her age. During ten years of married life she becomes a fashionable leader of society. A young man, Stephen Bond, protects her from the injnilts of a cad, Barridan, and Margaret becomes interested in him, with the result that later on her "husband overhears a mutual declaration of love between the two. He does not disclose his knowledge, but Margaret confesses to him, and he tells her" she is not to blame, for "youth calls to youth." In supreme self-sacrifice Delaiield takes his own life in a way that makes it appear therevhas been an accident. Time passes. Margaret- marries Bond, and they live in happiness till the woman discovers that she is no longer young, while the man is still in the prime of life. Also Bond has in his turn fallen in love with a young girl. Margaret makes her decision. That night she makes her toilet with all tho art she knows, and, restored to outward youth, dazzles her husband with, her. liappy brilliance. His old affection for her returns,, but next morning's sun finds Margaret's lifeless body lying, across her couch. "The Warrens of Virginia." a. beautifuL romance of the 1 American W^ar, will' also be screened.

Richmond will be visited to-night and Motueka on Saturday v..h usual.