MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 April 1920, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"PUSS AND FEATHERS." The above, to bo shown on .Saturday night, is The story i- a- iollows: —Susie Baldwin is the untutored daughter of Pete Baldwin, an old prospector liviiis; in the mining camp of Sdarveout. After many years of keen disappointments. Baldwin strikes it rich, and he srocs with .Susie to San Francisco at the request of Martin Ledyard. a mining proiuote.', le arrange for the sme of his claim. Susie and her father dine at the Ledyard home, where Mrs Ledyard plainly show.- her contempt for the couple, because of their roughness of manner. Angered by the woman's sneers. Susie drags her father out of the Ledyard honit and resolves to become educated. she employs J. ■Wells Stanton, an unscrupulous but polished rascal, to teach her the manners of polite society. Robert Ledyard, son of the promoter, comes -tome after being expelled from college for minor infractions of the college rules, and is driven away by his angered father to earn his own living. Stanton and Baldwin have a disagretment. which results

in Stanton's dismissal, and meeting voting Ledyard. he knock.- him out with a blackjack and robs him. Susie and her father find him in the roadway and take him home. He gives an assumed name and accepts the position of tutor made vacant by the dis.a.is-al of Stanr..u. He falls in love with Susie, and one day is recognised by a neighbour, who notifies his parents of his whereabouts. They rush to the Baidwis home to "save him" from the wiles of Susie, and arrivf y\-*i ;,- Stanton enters the house rot •.::*- purpose of cracking the Bald" in safe. Young Ledyard discover- Stanton ic the librarv, and the latter ;- about to shoot tho joung unr. v-arn Susie prevent; voider by tn.j-.ji!!!,* Stanton in tee arm. Explanation; with rht- Ledyard; folloi**. and when Susie kisr.es Mr:- Ledyard a reconciliation en ue; and all cr:di happa*:-'