THE PEOPLE’S PICTURES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16218, 24 August 1918, Page 2

THE PEOPLE’S PICTURES.

DOROTHY DALTON AND “BABES IN THE WOODS.” To-night’s big double bill presents the six-reel Fox special pantomime picture “The Babes in the Woods,” a gorgeous visualisation which is as alluring and enchanting as the fairy tale itself. Tales of witches, fairies, of enchanted princes, of cruel stepmothers, have enthralled generation after generation from the earliest times down to the present day, and will probably thrill as long as the world rolls on. In the days of antiquity when people believed m fairies these stories were told to beguile the long winter evenings as the family sat around the fireplace. In much the same way are they told to-dav, although many children read the fairy tales themselves and never know' the charm of hearing mother or father tell them. Parents and children alike will eniny immensely this fine production. The big Paramount-luce star presents the charming artiste Dorothy Dalton, in one of the most beautiful plays Paramount lias yet turned out. It is entitled ,-;‘.‘Love - Letters,” and is one of the tensest of stories. . . Shortly afterwards she marries Hnrland, and for a time their life is very happy. The return of Moreland brings an end to this, however, for he frightens Eileen with exposure of their old affair nn--IpSSpSS s br> will eomo*tn his rooms to got +be old loro letters she wrote him and ■for which she asks. Afraid to go, and afraid not to go, Eileen at_ Inst takes her conrngo in hand and visits Moreland's rooms. There, as she had feared. she learns that, he has no idea of returning the letters. nnd_ a fierce struggle ensues, after which Eileen makes good her escape—but without the letters. Next morning she learns that Moreland has - been murdered. Her husband, as the District Attorney. i s the nrosecutor for the State. What is her horror to learn that he secretly believes there was-n w'onian involved in the case and that he means to follow nn seme clues he has learned of. Terrified lest in searching the premises he finds her letters which are concealed behind a niece of tapestry, she returns to get them, only to be caught on trying to get awav by the sound of her husband and bis assistant’s footsteps. Hastily hiding behind a curtain, she waits .breathless while tbe men search the. rooin • • • It is a play no woman should miss.