McLEAN'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1923, Page 3

McLEAN'S PICTURES.

•■PIETY CANDLES " —TEES DAY. A six-net powerful drama will he swerned by Mrs McLean on Tuesday. ’1 be story of -‘Kilty ( audios"’ o; ens in fai-away Uonolidu. IliiugCiiin Clntng, a ( hiiiese, is about lo be d<,-ported to bis lionie in Shanghai and to certain death, "hen Henry Drew, the most lulled white man in the island nr:tinges a plan to save him. In return lor Ids life he makes Hung thin Cluing promise in 1.0 ids faithful servant for twenty years. (lung., who is then hut thirty agrees. In Shanghai, helore tailing the steamer home. (Vnlidge buys a curious ( lmie.se dap;gcr which lias attiai-lcd his attention. He shows the weapon to the other in the party, and Drew draws ilm amt-hi-ion that the young man lias bought it: in order to murder him. On the way home. Drew s; . nds so much time wati liing Coolidge. fearing an attack, that lie docs not dishi- wife's growing infill nation for Dr. Parker, tin- ship's physician. The t”.o are enamoured of each other, and It.ng In lot c the -bin reaches San Err li-e's,-o. are wildly in love.

When the ship dock- in America. Drew and his wife re met l>y Mark Drew, the elder man's son, who lelt his father's home when the latter ,omarried. Yeung Diew refuses to aeiept bis st'-p-motlier. A two reel Comedy and a Gazette will also be shown. Boss. Wednesday— starring Constance Binnev. Kuniarn. on Thursday a big -tat programme.