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'The camera, was shown to have been put to another use— to detect crime— in the star film, 'The Octoroon,' a most thrilling story adapted from Dion Boucicault's drama, screened by West's Pictures at Malcolm's Albury Olympia last evening. This was the sequel to the wrongful actions of a murderer, who had tried to upset an estate thereby causing the heroine to be sold as a slave and separated from her lover.'

Source:

'West's Pictures', The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times, 27 March 1912, p.2.

According to an advertisment in the Clarence and Richmond Examination, the film fell into four parts:

The Home in a Garret

A Dastardly Murder

Foong Lee's Opium Den

Great Motor Boat Chase in Sydney Harbour

Source:

Clarence and Richmond Examiner, 2 March 1912, p.12.

While most of George Young's films have left traces, despite being lost, the only discernible remnant of Three String to Her Bow is an advertisement describing it as a 'fine farcical comedy' (see below).

A paragraph in Table Talk offers the following, rather disconnected, take on the film:

Saw "The Golden West" this week. A fine film of entirely Australian origin. Preliminary canter at the King's Theatre, George-street. The artists all clever Australians; Miss Sara Collins the leading lady. Scenery magnificent; local, too. Delicious little bit of Manly and Middle Harbor. The Australian gee-gee taking no end of a hand; the heroine swimming a wide and deep lagoon, accompanied by a faithful Warrigal, otherwise Jacky, of dusky origin. [sic] The situations are exciting and sending the house into the wildest hand-clapping and applause. Pathe Freres not the only pebble on the beach, you see. Will now have to compete with the man from "down under." Manager told me film men waiting three deep round the office to buy up the "right to show" this Australian picture. Now and again the audience recognising a familiar bit, a house, or a bend in the road, or man on horseback. Audience yelling itself hoarse: "Coo-ee!" "Bully for Australia!" And why shouldn't we, I'd like to know? Local touch quite nice for a change, and "potted" drama the biggest money-making concern of the century.

Source:

'Fanella', 'Week by Week', Table talk, 30 March 1911, p.29 (via Trove Australia)