PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10230, 8 January 1927, Page 8

PALACE THEATRE

“THE BLIND GODDESS

A girl demanding the life of her own mother! This is one of the powerful situations hi “The Blind GodParamount’s vital picterisation of Arthur Train's mighty novel, which makes its debut at the Palace at to-day’s matinee and shows again to-night. The action involves four principal characters: a young prosecuting; attorney, nlayed by Jack Holt; n Now York politician, portrayed by Ernest Terrence; his daughter and Holt’s fiancee, charmingly personified by Estlier Ralston; and the mysterywomnn, impersonated by Louise Dresser. Miss Dresser is accused of murdering Torrence. The gun found alongside the dead man’s body ;s proved to be her’s. She was last seen with Torrence. Her latchkey was discovered in the room where the murder had been committed. She was fleeing from the city at the .tune of her arrest. This circumstantial evidence is used to build no the case against her. Holt is told to prosecute and Miss Ralston demands he ask for the extreme penalty. Unknown to the girl, the accused woman is her inotlicr 3 wlio lino, dcsciteci her husband many years before. What happened when Holt resigns his position and gives up the girl he loves to protect the mother, goes to make up a picture of tremendous appeal. The supports are also excellent.