AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

SficLEAH’S PICTURES, “ LOST AND FOUND ’’-TO-NIGHT. 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 ns Captain Blackbird, the chief character in Gohlwyn’s photoplay, l! Lost and Found,” coining to the Princess Theatre this evening. Years before Blackbird had been a dignified and high.lv respectable skipper—with an attractive wife and two daughters, korun and the bahv. Madge. Tint Blackbird had been wrecked and lost on the Chinese const for almost two years. ‘When he returned to Apia, il was to find his home occupied only by Tverifo, the servant and baby Madge. His wife and the elder daughter, Lorna, had gone otf with a well-fed and prosperous trailer. Kerilo had stolen the baby the night of the elopement. TTcarlliroken. Blackbird became a renegade and a hlackhirder. ft was to Pattgo, vears before, that the betrayer of Blackbird's wife, now known as Fatilke had fled with Ihe woman he had duped, and her elder daughter, Lorna. Tired of the wife, Fatilke had degenerated into a gin-soaked beachcomber. Unable to floe- because of his lack of Minaev, he accepted when )\ aki. coveting the beautiful young T.orna. oifered a large and lioatiful pearl, which AYaki had stolen front Terri, the son ol t Inchieftain of the neighbouring island of Moa. W hen the young child had come to woo a I’atigo girl. Waki had captor cd him. Stolen tin- pearl, and jnit Terri til work as a labouerr. Waki lines not- trust l-'aulke, and IcIL him that when the first ship comes in Unulke is to deliver the girl l<> him anil then get away, never to return. (>n Pango there is a voting American. Lloyd Marion. fugitive an unhappy romance in the States, who falls in love \tith t.orna. A comedy gazette and travelogue will also he shown.