ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4435, 3 July 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES TO-NIGHT. “THE THUNDERCLAP.” The William Fox masterpiece, “The Thunderclap,” tp be screened tonight, deals with sporting life and the gaming tables, and takes its title from the racehprste upon whose victory the fortunes of the hero and the heroine rest., Plots and epuntterplpts are set in metion to keep “Thunderclap" from winning, but with the aid of a good jockey the crooked gamblers’ efforts are frustrated. The beginning of the picture discloses the suffering wife anxious to bring her child home from the convent and her husband, the child's stepfather, refusing to have the “brat” around the house. In a moment of desperation the mother (threatens to disclose the crooked methods of the gaminghouse keeper if he does not grant her wish; The gambler strikes her and She becomes paralysed from the shock, losing the use of her Limbs and her speech. Ad orphan boy drifts into Obe employ of the gambler, who is. now running a fashionable establishment in a. large city, and brings with him (his horse, "Thunderclap.” The racer was bequeathed to the boy by the only kind employer he ever had. The gambler, finding his business falling off ruinously, sends for his beautiful step-daughter to act as hostess of the gaming-house. Com--1 Rations arise, and in desperation the gambler promises his daughter in marriage to an old reprobate, with the understanding that 40.000 dollars is to be paid to tihe stepfather within a specified time-. From then on the picture works up to its great climax, a diimax as unusual as it is thrilling.