McLEAN'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1925, Page 1

McLEAN'S PICTURES.

LOST AND FOUNT) ” FRIDAY Of Ha' race of silent, leather-fared skippers of vessels plying flic Smith Iheilie Ocean rumrunners, hlaikliirders. .ailing slim, fast-power schooners 1 here was none more silent, none more elusive than the one known through Hi" far stretches of the Pacific as Captain Blackbird, the chief character in (hildvvirs photoplay. -‘Ln-I and Found." "Mining to the Princess Thea--Ire on Fridav evening. Years before Blackbird had been a dignified and i.ighlv r"s|iei ialile skipper with an attractive wife and two daughters. I.orna and Hi" bid.-. A 1 ad"". But Blackbird bafl been wreek-cd and lost on Ihe Chin- "... "cast for almo-l two years. When ! ~ returned to Ania. it was in find his la eenpied n 11!\ hv Keriio. the servant and hahv .Madge. His wife and the eld"!' daughter. I.orita. had gone off with a well-fed and prosperous trader. Ixerito had stolen I lie hahv the night of the elopement. Heartbroken. Blackbird became a renegade and a hlaekhinb'r. It was to Pango, wear- before. I hat Ihe betrayer of |!l,1, klii 1 d'-. wile, now known as Faulke had lied wilh lli" woman lie had duped, and her elder daughter. I.orna. Tired of the wife, Faulke had degenerated into a gin-snaked heaeheotnhnr. Unable to flee because of his lack "f iiiiuiev. l.v accepted when Waki. coveting t lie lien ui it id young I.orna. otfered a large and hi-aiiful penil. which Waki had -toleii trniii Terri. :lie -on ol the chief I a 111 of the neighbouring idunil o r At mi, When the young "hid had (nine to woo a Pango girl. Waki had captor ed him, stolen the pearl, anil put D-r----ri |n work as a hibnueir. Waki does not trust Faulke, and tells him that when l la- first -hip come., in Faulke iin deliver il"- girl to him and then gel :iwav. never to return. On Pan go there is a vicing American. Lloyd Warren. fugitive tram an unhappy roinnnre ill the States; who tails in love with I.orna. A comedy gazelle and I ia velogtm will a Lo he shown.