THE COSY THEATRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13755, 6 February 1919, Page 2

THE COSY THEATRE.

• • A SPLENDID SINNER.'

Mary Garden, the world-famous opiiratic actress, makes lior debut to New Zealand luulicncos i" "Tho Splendid Sinner' , at the, Cosy. The picture is a (•oldwyii, and is produced in first-class fioJdwyu style. -Many of the scenes, especially tho supper scenes, are so ornate that they rival the magnificence of ''The. Auction 810ck, ,, -while a great effect of contrast is achieved by the outdoor scenes in the solitude of the forest. Mary Garden- proves herself as

irreat an actress on the screen as on the stage, and the story is of sueh.au intensely dramatic nature that it gives ample opportunity for the display (it. her talents. As Dolores she tires of the life she has been leading, and seeks peace and forgetfulness in a remote, village, where she encounters a doctor ■whom she eventually marries withouthaving had the courage to tell him of her past relations with another man. This other man crosses their path, and does not scruple to reveal the secret which Dolores has tried to hide. Thus the scene is set for a situation (if great and tragic, power. The picture is a vi'i'v impressive one, and grips the interest to an unusual degree. The present chapter of "A. Lass oi' the Liiinherlands" is most exciting and full of interest. A screaming Sennett. comedy is showing in "Two Tough Tenderfeet," and other films are included. This programme will be repeated this evening.