Entertainments.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 February 1913, Page 4

Entertainments.

NEXT MONDAY'S FILM DRAMA

"Dearly 'Purchased Friendship" i; : the title of the picture drama to bo pourtrayed at the King's Theatre. Levin, next Monday. It is by the Nordisk Company. The synopsis runs"Lieutenant Udo makes a close friend of Ralph Kerkshake who is a spendthrift and gambl?r. He lends him money to get him out of trouble on condition that he never gambles again. Ralph, however, soon succumbs to temptation, and having lost a very largo sum, decides to mark the cards to retrve his losses. Udo discovers this, and keeps ono of tho cards, deciding not to expose his friend. Ralph wins heitvily, and pays off his debt l ? with the proceeds, at tho same time offering Udo the money he lias borrowed from him. Udo. knowing whero it has come from, refuses it Ralph meets with an accident, and has to return home for the manoeuvres, and Udo writes to his fiannce suggesting she should try and make things brighter for him. She does so, and Ralph, thinking she is in

love with him. endeavours to kiss lier. and on lido's return tells li>ni lie is about to become engaged to Alice. A quarrel ensues, and Ralph endeavours to make his friend fight a duel with him. Alice discovvs the proofs of his duplicity, and at the very moment when her lover is about to be branded as a coward, produces the marked card, cleans lier lover, and brings about the downfall of Ralph, who is given a "tvolver by the President of •''he 3ourt of Honour and told "to do bis luty," He is thus condemned (•.-> ir ignoble death by his own hand '