ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1638, 16 November 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR PICTURES." “BODY AND SOUL." A particularly n(4ratHivo programme will he screened id the '[’own Hall on Saturday afternoon and evening, the principal attraction being a World Film production, “Body and Soul.” Claire Marlin, niece of (he wealthy Mrs Taylor, suffers from loss of memory. Under the effect of this, Claire acts as an entirely different, person. She wanders through the woods seeking shelter and food, and finally reaches a cabin temporarily occupied by a New York sportsman, who is lishing and hunting in the woods. Pur a week Claire accepts shelter from this sportsman, whose love grows with each day’s stay. Pina ily, a strange rider passing the cabin asks for a, drink, and Claire, in her innocence, shows her admiration for the new man, making 1 him finally accept the tempting invitation of her eyes to kiss her. At this moment Houghlon, Ihe sportsman, returns, and hursts into the cabin, driving out I lie stranger, and then, in a passionate outburst, takes a knife from the table and marks the woman so that she will always remember that her love must be for him alone. Houghton returns to New York. While walking down Fifth Avenue, he sees in a photographer’s show ease a picture closely resembling Ihe girl he thinks he lived with in the woods. Ho finds out who she is, and decides to visit Great Neck and see if it is the same girl. Returning to his boat, Houghton looks at some pictures which bo bad taken of the girl in the woods, and deludes i( must be the same. He returns to the grounds of Mrs Taylor’s homo, and meeting Claire, declares she is the woman who was with him at. the cabin, and pushing back the dress from her shoulders tie points to the sear. She begs him to tell her what he knows about I lie sear, and be, thinking she is

hlntling, lolls her to come lo the house-boat and ho will toll her. There Houghton proves that she must have been with him at the eubin, and when he demands that she love him now as she did then, and attempts to take her, she picks up a knife from the tabic and kills him. Kent, who has been over to (he Yacht Chib to a committee meeting, sees this when returning' to his launch. He rushes to the boat and carries the fainting' body of Claire home, and secretly gets her to her room, and calls (he doctor to see if lie can help her. The doctor declares Unit the girl is guilt less of the crime, having' gone back lo her old personality, and they decide lo make the case appear as one of suicide.' When Kent' is returning to the boat the following morning' he duds there some pielures of her and her seat'f, hut when he himself is charged with the murder by the man who heard (he rpiarrel, he is made lo believe that Claire is innocent by Kent and the doctor, who points oiil to him Hie terrible weakness of eii'eiimslaniial evidence. After Charlie goes, the-doctor tells Kent that Claire needs care and attention, and must he protected, and Kent, in his great love, lakes her to his heart.