AMUSEMENTS.
DARBY AND JOAN." Film productions come and go, but it is not every day that the creation of some master mind is flashed on the screen, to leave b-hind it a feeling of satisfaction and the impression that something out of the ordinary has been achieved. "Darby and Joan," 'screening at the Empire On Wednesday, is an adaptation pf Sir Hall Caine's story, and it can truthfully be claimed that is is masterpiece, a gripping story of human life with no impossible 'Situations. The noble example of two young people of the story, who cling together through starvation and defying their parents in their soulless efforts to part them, is one that might be copied in these days of separation and divorce; and the tragedy which follows, just. as the first stage of their happiness is reached, is an incident which would make the strongest falter. Through this, and even greater trials the couple go bravely on, and the manner in which the producer enlists the sympathy of the audience as the wonderful life sttory is unfolded, can only be recognised as a stroke of geniusi It is gratifying to be able to claim that picture-goers are indebted to a British producer for this extraordinarily high class entertainment.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1210, 25 February 1922, Page 8
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