ON THE SCREEN.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 103, 24 October 1918, Page 2

ON THE SCREEN.

“The Wild Strain.” Ancestor worship is most pleasantly ridiculed in the Vitagraph feature “The Wild Strain,” to be screened at Matamata on Saturday. Nell Shipman makes a fascinating heroine and is specially suited to the part. Her people are staid beyond all reason an(] mope under the shadow of a long line of ancestral portraits. One portrait however, is missing, the eighth grandfather. He happened to have disgraced the family name by being a brigand. Nell Shipman as Winifred is a throw-back and when a bold bad swash-buckling moon urges to adventure she steals away, rides her horse into a circus, comes homes consequently in much disgrace, and tries to make her eyes behave themselves. But she bubbles over again, goes for a moonlight ride, saves a Bank from robbery, gets mixed up in a cabaret scandal, and is eventually saved by the hero who displays undreamed powers of pugilism in rescuing her. This, his parents are forced to admit, is due to the fact that a great grandfather had been a prize fighter. In the third episode of “ The Double Cross,” Peter, the hero, is captured and given but a few minutes to live. The programme also includes aGaumont Graphic.