Entertainments.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 March 1913, Page 3

Entertainments.

$ LEVIN PICTURES. The new programme of picture:, for the Levin Town Hall is advertised, to-day. One of the chief films is thus summarised by its makers:—■ ""Why Jim Reformed'' is a story dealing with a habitual drinker, who, through his craving for liquor, is led to believe that lie has killed his best friend while under its influence. After a shopping trip to town one day. lie succumbs to the temptation of taking one drink at the road house on the way home. The one drink develops into a great

many, mid some hours later he awakens from a drunken stupor to find ail empty flask and a revolver lying beside him on the grass near the roadway. He cannot account for the pun until he discovers his friend lying near him dead. On his hands lie discovers blood stains. As everything seems to prove conclusively that he has committed the crime. Jim decides to give himself up to justice. He therefore goes to the sheriff, to surrender himself. The sheriff, meantime, lias learned that Jim's friend was accidentally killed by a wolf trap that had discharged a load of buckshot into his hack. Jim is released, but this harrowing experience serves to teach him a very 'bitter lesson.