AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

RAYWARD'S PICTURES

"THE GARDEN OF ALLAH."

"None but God and I: know v,-hat is ! in my heart,'.' is the refrain of a singer > who figures in "The Garden of.Allah," ; a remarkable eight-reel picturisation of the popular novel 'by Robert" Hichens, now; being shown at Hay ward's. The setting and the theme of a picture, drama have seldom been in such bar- ■ mony as in this SeKg masterpiece. The mysterious glamour of the Sahara! desert is successfully reproduced. T:ie austere charm and the fiery fervour uf Algerian days and nigh ta^ have their, counterpart in this passionate story, .■{'} love that v/as forbidden and of the Vac-!

rifice which atoned for it. Hehn Ware as Domini meets a. strange man at Beni-.iu.ara. At first he flees at the

mere sight of a woman,

but there

comes a time when .his tmcor.troilai'ie desire throws him into her ami?. He

begs her not to listen to what he says, but she replies, ''You must sa\ it, for I must hear it." .