MACMAHON'S PICTURES.

Grey River Argus, 19 April 1911, Page 5

MACMAHON'S PICTURES.

. A large audience greeted the second and final production of Buffalo Bill's Circus. The Messrs . MacMahon Bros.'^reason willl conclude to-night with the screening of the dramatic .film • "The Squatter's Daughter." Criticising the picture a Wellington contemporary says : — No expense o trouble has ibeen spared in making for realistic effect. The performers of Mr William Anderson's noted dramatic organisation, who interpreted the characters in the original production, tack part in the moving picture version. There are also wood choppers, shearers, twenty horses, bush buggies, a mob of 500 sheep and other, accessories which carry realism with the, enactment of the drama. The plot deals mainly with the villiany. of one Dudley Harrington, who.iMr James Harrington,' a wealthy squatter, .believes to be his son. Dudley;, however, is the "son of a notorious .bushranger, who substituted his infant son for the squatter's child after a raid. on the sta.tion during James Harrington's, absence. The attack on the ; station resulted in the death of Harrington's wife, and he is unaware of the . exchange of infants. The iba-d iblood of the bushranger asserts itself in his son Dudley, who is much embittered against Tom Bathurst, Harrington's -station manager. The later is Harrington's real son and by a trick of fate he is given a position of great trust by his father,who holds him in high esteem. Violet Enderby, a wealth}^ squatter's daughter, who is under the guardianship of Mr Harrington, is woed successfully by Tom. (Bathurst. This increases Dudley Harrington's jealousy and bitterness towards Bathurst. The villain resorts to co-operation with (bushrangers to bring about Bathurst' s downfall, ;but after several stirring episodes the ibushrangers are dispersed and the leader killed.Dudley Harrington is rewarded for his treachery by being betrayed by his own bushranger father, who Dudley had atempted to kill in a fit of. passion. The bushranger discloses the identity of Tom Bathurst and claims Dudley as his son. The squatter's daughter gives. her hand to Bathurst while the bushranger /and his son are led away to gaol. During the progress of the film Mr Ray Tafford gives a' clear and artistic internretation of the story. The audience frequently displayed enthusiasm by' outburst of applause. . The above picture will (be supported by an entire new programme of photo plays. -