Entertainments.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1913, Page 4

Entertainments.

NEXT MONDAY'S FILM DRAMA

"Dearly Purchased Friendship" b the title of the picture drama to bo pourtrayed at the King's Theatre. Levin, next Monday. It is by tho Nordisk Company. The synopsis runs:—"Lieutenant Udo makes a close friend of Ralph Kerkshnke. who is a spendthrift and gambl?r. He lends him money to get him wit of trouble on condition that he never gambles again. Ralph, however, soon succumbs to temptation, and having lost a very large sum, decides to mark the cards to retr : 7e his losses. Udo discovers this, and keeps ono of tho cards, deciding not to expose his friend. Ralph wins heavily, and pays off his debts with the proceeds, at the same time offering Udo the money ho has borrowed from him. Udo, knowing where it has come from, refuses H Ralph meets with an accident, and has to return home for the manoeuvres, .and Udo writes to his fiannce suggesting she should try and makethings brighter for him. She does so, and Ralph, thinking sho is in love with him. endeavours to kiss her, and on Udo's return tells h«'m he is about to becoino engaged to Alice. A quarrel ensues, and Ralph endeavours to make his friend fight a duel with him. Alice discov.vs tho proofs of his duplicity, a\n\ at tho very moment when her lover "s about to be branded as a coward, produces (no marked card, cleans her lovor. and brings about the downfall of Ralph, who is given a revolver by tho President of Court of Honour and told "to do his duty." He is thus condemned ar ignoble death by his own hand '