PEOPLE'S' PICTURES

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14458, 17 July 1917, Page 7

PEOPLE'S' PICTURES

"THE BLXCK BUTTERFLY."

! Tlii s Metro ploy, to be screened at the Theatre Boyal this oveningj filled with deep lieart interest as well as the iteirors of war, is described as Mmo. |Petrova's most striking .screen, triumph. iJn it eho take*-two parts, those of a woman who'has -yon fame as an opera singer, and of the bewitching daughter of the singer. Seldom has a screen star [essayed two snob, difficult parts in one j production. The story'of the play itself lis one that appeals 'strongly to emotions. Bonia Srairnov is a trusting I girl who falls in love with .a French officer and flees with him to Paris, where they go through a marriage ceremony. Afterwards the officer disappears and Sonia is led to believe, by a note, that the ceremony was a mock one. She wanders into the country, is picked up by some nuns, and then becomes a mother. Leaving the chikf, a daughter.'fit .a convent, she returns to Paris and there wins a name- as an opera singer. She is the idol of all Paris. Men of wealth and fame worship her. Then comes the war. She goes to the war as a trained nurse. The man she had loved is mortally wounded. Blood is needed to save his life." She volunteers for, flic operation. There is a. magnificent climax—-one that shows that love never dies. The playj is magnificently acted and finely staged, and introduces some unusual! double-exposure photography, which is! a unique achievement in the history of j motion pictures. Scats may be reserved at HounseP.'s.