McLEAN'S PICTURES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1923, Page 3

McLEAN'S PICTURES

A CHEAT I*l CT IRE. TI'ESRAY. "Hearts are Trumps" to l,e presented on Ttii’sdnv evening -how-, how Fatly Winifretl. daughter ol l.ord Altcar. a dissolute tiold,*man. i- secretly wedded to Michael Wain, a young forestef. Lord Aluar has been drinking and liming heavily at cards to Tail'd BniT’ord. who is enamored to Lady AYinifrcd: ami a Ii 11 a! stake io which t!m two liotiletnei: agree to |ilav is all of l.crd Am car's losses against hi- datightcr's hand in marriage to Burford. Alteiir, ignorant of the fact that his daughter is already wedded, agree to the infamous proposal ami in tiie end loses. When Daily Winifred enters her father atiuotmces that she i- betrothed to BtuT'ord. Alter her eonfession of her secret marriage Altcar Hie- into a furious rage, summons Michael Wain before him am! has him lashed hv Ids keep-rs. Wain, believing Daily Winifred to have been responsible for hi- mistreat mi nt, finally leave-, vovfillg vengeance on everybody remcnicd. Twenty year- later I'm,is l.adv M'inilrcd the mistress of ll„> Manor, w hich is sorclv I hreateuetl by llm low lin;>Dees of Ihe family. Burwned appears and suggests the mai l ing,' Dora. her 10-.inS :tul daughter. C. a man "f '.'calth : hut Winil tcl M**irn.i the idea. Dura. j beautiful girl, is Htcit sen within the j wall- of Mortiimiiic. a coDvetii in j southern France, aceomptinied hv an ~|,| nmilk. Brut tier Cl" t■l oi ,lmr. whom si I - has known 'ime childliood. Nearby stands -li.lti: ( dll,".pie. a young American arti-t. who ha- coim' ,o p'ram-e lo paint. lic sec- Dora ami falls tu love with her at Sir. i siggtß. Meanwhile. Miohn.'i Wain, now T Immas Kent, lit- riturucd from Alaska, where in tlm intervening years tie lias accumulated a I'.iri title. It i- lie who Isolds the mortgages on tin* Alicar Manor, and he now threatens to loreclose out of revenge on Lady " feed, his wife, for the fancied wrong .dm did him years before when lie was la Am, I bv her lather's order. A uvur.'i'l come,lv amt Cazeile wilt con,Tilde a line programme. (In Friday evening Yiola Dana will tie seen in "dune Madne-s.