THE PICTURES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7918, 14 August 1917, Page 3

THE PICTURES.

Labor and its troubles form the leading themes in “The Making Over )f Geoff. Manning," to be serened on Thursday. Geoff. Manning, the son of a wealthy ironfounder, is accustomed to idle ways, and a person prone to causeless riots, etc. Stung to the quick by a taunting comment on his uselessness overheard at the club, he leaves his society butterfly sweet heart and battles into the world to make a living. He finds it no bed of roses, hut for very shame’s sake sticks it out and makes good. The film has some very starting photography, noticeably the wonderful scenes of the burning factory. Belle Bruce as the little music student living in the same set of cheap apartments as Geoff, acts with great sweetless and naturalness, and the old father, as hard and unbending as the iron of his foundry, is a fine piece of characterisation. There is a fine thread of grim humor throughout the story, and the whole play is fresh and interesting. A noteworthy support is •he Charlie Chaplin film, “The Count."