PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14635, 13 February 1918, Page 14

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

: Two star films will be presented at' the Theatre Royal to-night. Kitty Gordon of the wonderful back' is seen in "Haunting Shadows," which gives her. Lan altogether new role. In the first scenes she is a Corsican fisher girl whose love of gaiety leads her to ctueliy desert her lover to link herself to a pro-' fligate old nobleman. She becomes the! mistress of a fashionable French gamb-: ling saloon, which her husband runs to i retrieve his family fortunes, and she j acts as a lure to young men about town,' attracting them to the tables and stripjping them of their meney. Then the meets a man who really wins tor heart, j and his marriage to a sweet young ling-i lish gill arouses every evil passion in; her heart. The plot is very exciting and the climax most powerful. l<y the: clever use of the resemblance ci a detective to the evil woman's lover, her fears are aroused and all her "well-laid plans are brought ,to nought. The scenes in Corsica are wonderful, and the setting of the various interiors in Eng- | land, Paris, and Rome most sumptuous.' jThe supporting cast is strong The French marriage laws are used with evil ingenuity by the adventuress. A Pan

of twenty-three is not allowed to niarry without his parents' consent. Disregarding this, her son marries a young English, girl, .and later dies, in 'order to forcclier way into society, %he evil woman holds out the threat that unless her demands are granted she will make the marriage illegal, and thus render nameless the baby which •will, soon be born. The second star features George Walsh, and is a thrilling picturiration of Ray Norton's widely read booK, "The Mediator "