AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

MCLEAN’S PICTURES, •‘'LOST A XI) EG EX It " —FRIDAY Of the race of silent, leather-faced skippers of vessels plying the South Pacific Ocean --rumrunners, blackbirders, sailing slim, fast-power schooners, there was none more silent, none more elusive than the one known through the far stretches of the Pacific as Cap-

tain lilnekhird. the chief eharaeior in Ooldwyn’s photoplay, “ East and Found," coming to the Princess Theatre on Friday evening. Years before Blackbird bad been a dignified and highly respectable skipper—with an attractive wife and two daughters. I.orna and the habv. Madge. Rut Blackbird had been wrecked and lost on I he Chinese coast for almost two year-. When he returned to Apia, ii was to find his home occupied only l-v Km-iio, the ser-

vant and hnliv Madge. I lis wife and the elder daughter. I.orna. had gone oil' with a well-fed and prosperous trader. Ixerito had stolen the baby the night of Iho elopement. Heartbroken, Blackbird became a renegade and a blackhirdcr. It was to Pango, years before, that the betrayer oi Blackbird's wife, now known as Faulke had lied \i ilh the woman he had duped, and her cider daughter. I.orna. Tired of Ihe wife, Faulke had degenerated into a gin-soaked beachcomber. Unable to lice because of bis lack of' money, le accented when Wnki. coveting the beautiful young I.orna. nlfcied a large and bealiful penil. which Wnki had stolen from Terri, the son of the chieftain of the neighbouring island of Mon. When the young chief had come Lo mm a Pango girl. W.iki had cnplttr ■d him. -lolen the pearl, and pul Terri to work n.s a Inkiiiiorr. Wnki does mu trust Faulke, and tolls him lliai when the first ship comes in Faulke i-. to deliver the girl to him and then v*-1■ away, never to return. On Pango there i- a young American. Floyd Warren. fugitive from an unhappy rout* mee m the States, who falls in love iiith I.orna. A comedy gazelle and : rnvclngtie will also he shown.