THE STAR THEATRE

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 March 1918, Page 2

THE STAR THEATRE

—Saturday— Scenes of Metropolitan gaiety and glimpses of Broadway life contrasted with the activities of the lumber camps in the great Northwest, form part of the powerful Metro production, " The" Promise," which features Harold Lockwood and May Allison. It contains the lesson, told in a story of breathless in_ terest, that a man can always " come back," if he is willing to do so, and that the best panacea for the ills of civilisation is hard work, done with a stout heart in the open air. Harold Lockwood, as Bill Carmody, football hero, Broadway " spender," and then a lumberjack, proved himself more than equal to the part. —Wednesday— " The Girl Who Doesn't Know "—The tragedy of the centuries has been ignorance. Not the ignorance of humanity groping for truth, but the ignorance of the truth well known and deliberately hidden. Worst of all has been society's hypocritical dodging of the most important of all truths. The innocence of young girls so called, is but ignorance Since time immorial society, has thought to keep its daughters pure by shielding them from all knowledge of impurity, avoiding the truths of nature as though they were unfit, immodest, and society has yet to learn its lesson that thus it has betrayed the daughters it sought to save. It remains with the mother^ to tell her daughter. ' Sooner or later she must learn. Better told truthfully, purely, than learnt through bitter experience.