ON THE SCREEN.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 72, 7 March 1918, Page 2

ON THE SCREEN.

The Girl Who Didn’t Care. Uniform with the special programmes now being! hired by the Matamata hall committee, “ The Girl who didn’t care ” will be screened on Saturday next. The film is of 6000 feet and is said to be an especially attractive one. The story concerns a wealthy manufacturer, who, years after his wife befriended and helped an orphan girl and taken her into their home, is lured away by the girl, who gets him to cast aside his wife. As an excuse he pleads the constant melancholy in which she is wrapped as the result of the loss of their only child, a son, who they believed was drowned, but whose disappearance was caused by the girl. The son returns, and, meeting his mother, learns of her separation from his father and its cause. He meets the woman who brought about his own disappearance and his mother’s woe. She becomes enamoured of him and he, realising the fact, determines to repay her in her own coin. He permits her to make love to him and thereby succeeds in releasing his father from the lure of sex and in addition effects the reconciliation and reunion of his parents. The programme also includes a Keystone comedy and a Gaumont Graphic.