ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2207, 25 November 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

To-night’s programme at the Koval presents 'a pleasing story ot country life, adapted from Florence M. Kingsley’s novel, and entillJecl "Cupid Forecloses,” featuring the winsome little actress, Bessie Love. The programme ’ for to-morrow evening, and Saturday's matinee, is entitled ‘■‘Dick Carson IVins Through.” Dick Carson, tramp, comes to I lie assistance of Margaret: Gilder, whose ear has broken down. She persuades her father to give him work as a gardener, and grows to have more than a passing interest in him, although a marriage has been arranged between her and a wealthy Frenchman. Gustav Lo Sa.ge. Carson is a fugitive from tlie law, being arraigned for the murder of his young brother many years before. He can be identified by a large-scar on his right hand. Chance so wills that a policeman spots the sear, and Carson is captured, but not before he has told Margaret (lie whole story, of how his brother was killed by an unknown foreigner, and his only evidence stolen from him. This happened on the very day of Margaret's marriage, -and she is hurried away by her new husband en route for the Continent. They ure hold up in Dover, having missed the boat, and in the hotel Le Sage catches sight of the headlines telling of Carson’s arrest. • Ills- behavour arouses the suspicions of his new wife, and, acting on Carson’s story, she ingeniously causes him to betray himself as tjie murderer. A terrible struggle ensues, and Margaret has to light for her life on the edge of a shaky verandah, which gives way, causing Lo Sage to lose his grip and fall backwards to the, ground, where he makes a dying confession, and clears the honour of Dick Carson.