PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10301, 10 January 1927, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

THE I!LIN'D GODDESS.”

AVliat is declared to be the most dramatic and authentic court room scene ever filmed is one of the features of "The Biind Goddess,” which was shown to capacity houses at the Palace on Saturday, and is finally screening there to-night. Jack Holt, Ernest Torrence, Esther Ralston and Louise Dresser form the strong quartet of featured players, in the picture Louise Dresser is arrested for the murder of Torrence, New York political boss. Torrence’s daughter. Miss Ralston, is engaged to Jack Holt, a brilliant young lawyer attached to the District Attorney’s staff. Called on to prosecute Miss Dresser against whom the police have built up a case, based sol c 1 v on circumstantial evidence, Holt refuses to do so, but affirms his belief in the woman’s innocence, and at the trial appears as lawyer for the defence. More than, four hundred persons take part in the trial scenes. Twelve citizens, who never before appeared on the .screen, play the roles of the jury men. They are not actors, but merely citizens selected from various walks of life to. serve as the jury in order to add realistic emphasis to the scene. A Los Angeles judge, as well as two of California’s famous criminal lawyers were called in to act as technical* advisers during the rehearsal and filming of the sequence. Aside from the technical correctness of the scene there are several touches of realism usually lacking in motion picture court-room episodes. For instance, the reporters are real newspaper men recruited from Los Angeles papers; and the newspaper cartoonist j- n real artist and was obtained from a h cal paper. _