PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 7

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

"HUSBAND AND WIFE."

Marriage and its problems form the main threads of the plot of "Husband and Wife " the World Film drama which lioaus the new programme at the Theatre Royal to-night. The cast is of quito^unusual strength. Ethel Clayton is in the lead, supported by Holbrook Blinn, Montagu Love, Gerda Holmes, Dion Titheradge, and little Madge Evans. Ethel Clayton is unsurpassed in the role of. 3'oung bride, and in this story she portrays a girl! who has married a man who has to live on his salary. Her tastes ai me expensive, and she has no sense of the value of money, and, he has not the courage to deny her anything. The result is inevitable. He begins to speculate with the bank funds. The young wife is loved by a young and wealthy man, who, however, plays the game, and he comes to the rescue .in dramatic fashion. Madge Evans, as'the child of the two who have drifted into such I perilous courses, (is bewitching, as she always is, and Dion Titheradge as -the brother of the weak husband gives a fine portrayal. Th\j supporting pictures arc good.