HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 7

HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

"THE GARDEN OF ALLAH."

The setting and the theme of. a picture drama have seldom been in such harmony as in the Selig masterpiece. "The Garden of Allah," to be shown at ; Hay ward's; Pictures to-night. This .is a' picturisation of Robert Hichens s powerful novel of the same name, and the mysterious glamour of the Sahara desert is successfully reproduced. Tne austere charm and the fiery fervour ot Algerian days and nights have their counterpart in this passionate story «f love that was forbidden and of the sacrifice which atoned for it. Hehn Ware as Domini meets' a, strange .nan at Beni-.i>i.ava. At first lie fiees at the mere sight of a woman, but there comes a time when his uncoctroilalile desire throws him into her avrns.; He begs her not to listen to what he says, but she replies, ''You must .say it, for I must hear it."