AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16234, 2 April 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

SECRET SERVICE DRAMA AT lIAYWABDS.

jTlie Houho of , a Thousand Sins/ is i the name-given' by the nihilists to. the I house Of.tiavarott in Warsaw, bavarott. I is the chief of the .Secret Police, and is assassinated by one of the heroines of "The Scarlet Oalch," a big 5 reel sensation now showing at Haywards. Nihilists and-their enemies, the Russian .Secret Police, figure prominently in '.this great ''World" production. Gail Kane plays a dual role, that*of two sisters, Olga and Alina Pavloff, and lier_ power of painting intense emotion is called upon for tremendous eifpitt. in Home of the scenes in this melodrama. Nina Pavloff, one of twin sisters, is adopted by the wealthy Ka renin family. , Twenty years later, "Olga, the other ttyin and her father, a nihilist, plan to, u rethrn to Russia to. avenge their I wrongs. While at a meriting of the I nihilists at Warsaw they arq raided by I tho Chief' of Police, Savaroff. Olga's .fatheris tortured and she consents to buy" his release at the price of herself. She, however, kills Savaroff. Through 'the aid of Huntington, her sister's f'ance, who believes her to be Nim, , 3he; escapes to America, but is tracked' rtul shot by an agent of the Russian Police. The character of this picture intensely dramatic and many of the.eoenos laid in , Wairsa.w, are... most wonderful, and were taken iust'prior- tothe German occunntion' of the'unhappy Polish capital.- The story ends with al great tlramati" finish,/the real destroy(>f of Savaroff-, the Russian ; Departmental Chief, paying tlie penalty,'.while Nina and her sweetheart are re'viiniteiT . iii eternal haoniness. '1 The 'method of ; i (the R.ifs.si'.in Secret Police: are" deiv r -ted . with lifo'ike rmlitv, oquallv sensational | are .the methods employed ,bv fb" * nihil m 'their endonwir . Vi' 1, ana i ••♦HCCoeHfullv- thoi of' I the law. Supporting this fine R.nssia.n production ai"' 1 - ' thr<«< other .pictures-. "Fii-'hii l ' l '" in the North Ria," 'ntemst." film :/.''^n.iimont;Odette.'' and a verv finiß '.'.'Sidney . Drew" comedy. i