AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20105, 26 March 1928, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS.

municipal pictures { * The Woman on Trial,” now showing at the Opera House, tells a cruicial story, in which women of all races amJ, climes confront the world with a problem of love, honour ami motherhood, and ask—understanding. Fortunately this difficult and absorbing role is in the hands of a great dramatic artist, Pola Negri. The theme of “Tho Woman on Trial” is taken from “Confession,” a noteworthy stage play by Ernest Vajda, Hungarian dramatist. Ic concerns the sacrifices a woman makes in the name of love. Caring deeply for one man who is deathly ill, she weds another to obtain money to restore the first to health. When her child by the loveless marriage is taken from her through a jealous and deceitful scheme, she runs true to the instincts of woman and motherhood to regain the happiness of which she has been cheated-. Settings, exceptionally colourful and backgrounds of tho Latin [Quarter of Paris, frame the action for [a cast which includes Einar Hanson, [Arnold Kent and Andre Sarti.