Wide World Pictures.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 January 1913, Page 3

Wide World Pictures.

There will be no Picture Show in the Foresters' Hall, to- night, owing to the Show Bocial beiDg held there. To-morrow (Thursday) evening an exceptionally strong attraction, is promised. , The leading feature of a varied picture programme will be the magnificent " star " drama, *' The Ship of Lions." Miss Jeanette. a lady lion tamer, whose fame has spread to foreign countries, is approached by a spectator, who induces her to contract for an extended Continental tour, and m due course arrangements are made for the animals to be shipped to Europe in the brig Audacious. Before sailing, the captain of the Audacious is called into the private office of the owners, and told that at a ct>rtnin little-visited cape, he is to take aboard ajcargo of gold dust in barrels, which a party of smugglers there will have waiting for him. The journey has ■ hardly well begun when Miss Jeanette begins to find the close attentions of the impressario, who accompanies her .to Europe, annoying. On the other hand she finds the company of the handsome young captain of the vessel the reverse of disagreeable, and it is not long before the two become lovers. The disappointed impressario seeks revenge, and engineers a mutiny. The captain and his sweetheart con» trive to ship away in a boat and in leaving, set fire to the ship and let loose the lions. To the horror of the mutineers, when they at last force the hatch, they are met with a volume of smoke, through which there bound upwards the terrifying forms of the infuriated lions. Scattering in all directions, they climb to the rigging for safety, The ship is left without control of any sort, "save that of the savage animals which half mad with fear and anger, rush to fro on the decks. From their boat the captain and Miss Jean9tte watch the vesssel, doomed to distraction by the flames which the presence of the animals will not allow them to quench.