PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14653, 6 March 1918, Page 7

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

BESSIE BARiUSOALE

l_ The word "snarl" in the title of the interesting Tiiar.gle play, "The Snarl," which heads the list of new pictures to be shown at the Royal to-night, is here used in its rather old-fashioned sense of "entanglement" or "knot." The plot is a unique one, full of interest and excitement. A young millionaire marxies one of two twin sisters, but, as is not unusual, chooses the heartless and worthless one of the pair. Amazing adventures and complications arise as the result- of the villainy and unscrupulous character of the "wicked sister," but all comes right in the end. The play is remarkable for its wonderful scenes of modern society, notably in tho luxury on the millionaire's pleasure yacht. Bessie Barriscale's work in the dual role is supreme. She manages to infuse tTvo altogether different sets of expression into her face, when portrajdng each sister, and the photographer has managed some almost incredible double-ex-posure feats of the camera. In several cases the two sisters are seen talking to each other, embracing, and altogether acting normally as if there were two separate actresses. The pleasure yacht on fire in "'Wie Snarl" is a marvellous piece of photography, and the closing scenes of the catastrophe are breathless with excitement. A further chapter of the serial, "The Iron Claw," scenic, topical, and comedy films complete the programme.