PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14620, 26 January 1918, Page 7

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

LOCKWOOD AGAJLV

The Metro Company have produced' a ■play-in "The Haunted Pyjamas'' thsit is "altogether novel, it breaks away from :.tlie- conventions, presenting a:^picture story of great "interest, with plenty of fun, some good dramatic situations, and a delightful love interest.' Harold Lockwood- is the star, and he has neye'r been seen to better advantage, while as the leading lady a new.and most pleasing actress has been secured in Oarrael Myers, a girl possessing charm and personality to a marked degree. As to the play, it is probably the most unusual photoplay of the season. The production partakes of the nature of a farce, an extravaganza, and a powerful dramatic story. .Nothing like ib lias hitherto been seen on the screen. it is a clever combination of action, love, I and mystery. It is the kind of story j that all people are interested in. Dick Hudson receives from China a mysteri-l ous present of a pair of beautiful silk pyjamas. These instantly -change the personality of anyone who wears them,, and surprising things happen. VVhen Dick puts them on he becomes a fierce old Chinaman, and has a terrible light with his own servant. A young man friend who wears them takes on the appearance of a beautiful girl. Dick afterwards meets the girl his friend resembled, and begins making love to her, claiming they have met before. She freezes him, birt later relents, saying that she coujd forgive a-'Harvard man almost anything. Everybody who visits ! Dick gets into a peck of .trouble, and Dick asks the wrong father for the wrong girl, all on account of those haunted pyjamas. Finally the puzzle is solved, and all is well. This picture is the new attraction to be shown at the | Theatre Royal.