MAORILAND PICTURES

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 11 June 1920, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES

I lie City ot Dint Faces” (Scssuc Hayakavva) will be shovvu to-morroiv ulglit, and should attract a largo crowd. The story deals with a young Chinese American, a college graduate, whose lather is a Chinese merchant in IS a n Irancisco’s Chinatown, and his mother a white Woman. He is ignorant of her existence, and she is her husband’s prisoner in an underground den, and bop«Icssly demented. He falls in love with a young woman, and when she breaks I he engagement lie imprisons her iu the same den as liis own mother. After this he sell- her to a marriage broker, who in turn places tier on the auction block to be sold to the highest bidder, it is « lien he sees the degradation of t he woman he loves that the white blood in him asserts itself, and remorse izi-s him. When he discovers that he i- half-white he at once rushes to the rw ciir of the girl, and in a fight i.a terribly wounded. He succeeds in rescuing the girl from the clutches of the Chinese, and wanders to' the underground den. His mother’s reason re t-'i'u- for :m instant, and she recognise! long lost son a - he dies at her f«et. I oere will be several tint: supports. On l-rh.lay next a ■special program::* v. dj tie given, when that great star. ‘‘ I he Man From Kangaroo,” will he