PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 7

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

A NOVJ-L PLAY

At the Theatre Royal they uro show-' ing a. Metro play, ''The Haunted; Pyjamas." Harold Look wood, is the star, and he has never been, seen to better advantage, while as the leading lady a new and most pleasing actress has been secured in Carmel Myers, a girl possessing charm and personality to a marked degree. This unusual film tells how Dick Hudson receives from China a mysterious present of a pair of beautiful silk pyjamas. These instantly change the personality of anyone who wears them, and surprising things happen. When Dick puts them on he becomes a iierce old Chinaman, and lias a terrible fight with his own .servant. A young man friend Avho 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," but later relents, saying that she coxild forgive a Harvard man almost anything. Everybody who visits Dick gets into a peck of trouble, and Dick asks the wrong father for tlie wrong girl, all on account of those haunted pyjamas. 'Finally the puzzle is solved, and all is well.