Second Edition. Entertainments.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 March 1914, Page 3

Second Edition. Entertainments.

♦ KING'S THEATRE. The iulf programme to be shown in the King's Theatre this evening (Monday) appears on page one of this issue. The "star film is a 2500 production entitled "The Price of Pardon." It is the plot of "East Lynne"—with variations. Tantalised by the ennui of her quiet life in the small town where her husband's works are situated, a brilliant society woman gladly welcomes a poet friend who comes to pay a visit, and at last consents to run away with him. At the very moment she is entering the car he child —reaehin gout of bed for her doll —upsets a lamp and the whole bed is soon in ames and she is aeverely burned. The moihci does not know of this until days after. She soon repents hoi folly, and forces her companion to let her leave the motor, but far from home fehe sinks exhausted on the roadside, and is carriel, desperately ill, to a doctor's house. When convalescent she hears accidentally that her child is seriously burned ancl to become well someone must be found willing to allow part of their skin to be grafted on her arm. She makes the sacrifice, but without revealing her identify. The operation is successful and she goes to the child's bedside in the night to take a last farewell. He husband is sleeping by the side of the cot and nwakes while she is cmbracim* the child. At first he spurns her and then realising that it is she who has risked her life for the child, a reconciliation takes place at the bedside.