PEOPLE’S PICTURE PALACE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145862, 22 June 1917, Page 7

PEOPLE’S PICTURE PALACE.

TO-NIGHT. Harold Lockwood and May Allison are fast becoming tho most popular couple on tho screen to-day. Their work is characterised by .cleanness and strength, the pictures in which they enact the principal parts are fine, big breezy stories of the great out-doors, the productions are without question the most artistic, and the photography is always beautiful and cleverly selected, nature being used to supplement art as no other films have succeeded in doing. For their latest success Harold M'Grath’s great novel Pidgin Island has been selected. The whole world knows the striking brilliance of M'Grath’s books, and this particular story is splendidly suited to the screen and certainly no better exponents of tho parts of John Cranford, the secret agent of the United States Customs, and Diana Wynne, the mysterious girl spy, could have been found than Harold Lockwood and May Allison. Pidgin Island is a small rugged island on Lake Ontario forming a half-way mark between Canada and tho United States, and one which was used by a gang of international smugglers as their headquarters. The battle of wits and of weapons between the Customs Department and the smugglers form the base of the story, but interwoven throughout the exciting adventures is one of tho most charming romances possible. Love, mystery and adventure constitute the strong appeals in this truly excellent play, and these elements have been set amid some of the most beautiful scenery of the Canadian Lakes, a special feature being tho magnificent surf scenes during one of the great storms that sweep over these inland seas. The views taken during this storm are unique in picture photoplay, and have been acknowledged as the finest yet seen on the screen. A beautiful Metro Travelog and other films are in support. The usual matinee takes place to-morrow at 2 p.m.