AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14873, 23 September 1918, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWAHD'S PICTURES.

DOUBLE PROGRAMME.

At Rayward's Pictures to-night the programme v/iH include both the Metro^ story, "Bluo .Jeans," and the Vitagraph cliJima, x'Tho Fettered Woman." So maa.v people were unable to gain admittance to "the Theatre Royal on Saturday night that the management have decided to .show "Blue Jeans"' at" the Empire this'evening in conjunction wiih the current feature. A punctual -;prt will l^e made at 8 o'clock. ;< r variety, for power of plot, for real-.;.>ci-3 acting, for real heart-gripping ap-i^-eJ and strong situations, the Metro, picture attains a'high standard. The story is one that will reach the understanding of,everyone. . "Blue Jeans" is a .regular country-life story, replete with • all.'the;, characters-.familiar to the farm and to the small suburban village. It carries with it the atmosphere of David Hnrum, and brings out the tones of the entire keyboard of human nature from thf* ridiculous to_ the sublime. There are two situations in "Blud Jeans" that will be long remembered hy all who sco the picture. One is simple, only the visit of an aged couple to their wronged grandchild and her !>aby ■;, but for direct heart appeal, itsurpasses anything seen for .-many days. The.- other; -situation is most?-intense. A'helpios^ man is laid on the'-saw-bench -iii the- nvillSj. ainl tho . jnae-binery is startedI,' the?- doors 'locked, and - a girl, is outside- vainly trying ..'to: batter down, the strong barricade. It is a breathless scene. Viola Dana has a leading part in this film. R. W. Chambers is nowadays a name to conjure with" as a storyteller, r.nd he has kept to his wonderful sxandard in "Anne's Bridge," which has been picturised under the title of. "Tho Fettered Woman." m Tho selected cast is headed " by Alice Joyce and "Webster Campb'ell, the latter being another of Vitagraph's excellent juvenile leads. The heroine ks a damjhtcr of an eld man j whose handling of the family estate has ; resulted in ruin, and after his suicide i she becomes the prey of unscrupulous landsh.-irks. In a cafe quarrel a maa is killed, and the Wame is skilfully fastened on the -innocent girl. After her term is served she returns home, and is of course shunned by everyone, even the children she loves. In desperation she" "advertises for summer boarders, and tho young Now Yorker who comes to stay is attracted by thebeautiful hostess. A very pretty love-romance--develops, and the resolutelover succeeds in. clearing his sweetheart's name. Eov.iarkably beautiful settings characterise the play, and tho acting ox tho principals is superbly .effective. .There are several good supporting -'pictures.- ; ,-■_.,-