MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 20 September 1920, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"THE SILENT WITNESS.” This fine picture will be shown tomorrow night. The narrative opens in Denver, where a young woman is engaged to a college student named Morgan, who disappears after a dormitory fire in which he is believed to have lost his life. Shortly after a boy is bum to her, and she takes up her residence else where. The action then jumps ahead a number of years, arid the mother, who has taken the name of -Morgan, is enabled by her industry to send her son. whom she has named Bud. to college. Because he is of poor parentage be is mistreated by wealthy fellow student*, one of whom ha* learned the secret of Bud’s life. In defending his mother's name Bud fights with this youth, and imagine* that he has killed him. Arrested, Bud Morgan faces trial for his life, and at the crucial moment the district attorney, returning from a vacation, takes the ease. . The district attorney. Richard Morgan, does not know that the defendant its his own son, nor doer the boy suspect the relationship. The development of the climax and the manner in which the author bandies a situation in which mother, son, and . father figure te deft to the last degree.

“TEE MIRACLE MAN.” “The Miracle Mas*,'' to be screened at Otaki on Friday night, j* a powerful pietnrisation of George M. Cohan’* celebrated drama of fle*h-and-blood men and women, --inning, struggling, loving, rising from the underworld into the light. It drives ahead with action that grips and bolds, but it is softened with humour so true that it laughs with all mankind, to deep that it starts the tears. It is a story of lost soul* found, but it te sot propaganda in any reuse of the word, neither has it any creed save that of humanity. It it not a religious picture, yet the mac or woman who can *>it. through it unmoved is not to be envied. It* charm is irresistible, its passion is masterful; U last ils ir. the raise a new and deeper sense of kinship with humanity sad a deeper understanding of the spiritual forces of existence. The supreme heights of thenars* are reached as it portray* .the -jest conquering of hardened wiß~. ti/ physical zsi spiritual regeneration of there who hud -ought to debase and suploit tie loftiest in struct* of iurfnirv. No detail that could add eon teflon to a wonderful entity has bten fchtied