THE PICTURES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 3

THE PICTURES.

A CHARLIE CHAPLIN FEATURE. Charlie Chaplin is always a big draw at a picture house, and the announcement that this inimitable screen artist will be seen in one of his funniest characterisations, “The Immigrant,” at the local Pictures on Monday evening should be responsible for a big house. Charlie is seen in some excruciatingly funny stunts, and the film is a scream from start to finish. Supporting it is the screenversion of “Empty Pockets,” tlie celebrated novel by Rupert Hughes, and it is doubtful if ever any picture has moved off at such express speed and succeeded in maintaining it to the very end. It is also doubtful if such an unsolvable mystery, tangle has ever before been devised. The picture is a First National release, and the cast is an all-star one, including Ketty Galanta, Barbara Castleton, Bert Lytell, and Malcolm Williams. The latter takes the role of Perry Meritbew, a millionaire about town who has a special weakness for girls with copper-colored hair. He is found murdered on the roof of a tenement bouse, and five women, all with red hair, are implicated because in the dead man’s hand is found a knot of hair of that color. The plot retains a remarkable clarity in spite of amazing complications and all sorts of cross currents which go to increase the mystification. The ending is very dramatic and unexpected. An exceedingly interesting love story runs through the whole texture and the I picture is most gripping.