MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 6 January 1922, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT. -• v To-night (Friday) picture-lovers will be able to witness "The God of Luck," a splendid picture, the story of which is as follows:—After a chauco meeting, a rich, young retired engineer sends to a young financier's wife a littlo imago, representing Chance. The horse sho backs at the Grand Prix wins, and sho tells the young man that it is owing to The God of Luck. He becomes a friend of the family, acts as her swimming partner, and at a garden party tkoy join in an amorous dance. Tire husband and hie fellow director pawn tha wife's necklace l» put off n financial crash, and hint to the wife that it would be a good thing to interest the young man in their company. She. does so, but finds out that the young man is being fleeced, and goes to warn him. He thinks when she faints that she is merely acting to trap him, but when the husband arrives he cynically draws a largo cheque to invest in the Company. At home they notice that the cheque is drawn in favor of the wife. She refuses to endorse it. Thedirector forges her name and goes with her husband (who has locked the wife in her room) to cash the cheque. She' climbs out of the window, aeroplanes to Paris, aud arrives at the bank just before them. The director is arrested, tout the husband, warned by the wife, escapes, and is about to shoot himself. After writing a farewell letter, when he sees in the paper that nis wife has eloped. He goes to the houM; of the young man, who is really about toleave the house so that the wife may recuperate there. There is a fight,, during which the husband is accidentally shot dead, and the police find tbc letter. Months later the widow writes to her sweetheart, "Tears come to mo when I think that had I met you sooner life would have been a happy drp ; am_ ... A greater power than ye,u hs claiming me." The lover arrives, the letter ifi carried by the breeze "into the woods, and she falls in his arms. Mr Kae Crichton, dancing master, will assist, end give an exhibition of dancing in keeping with the picture. '"» "THE TEXAN." i . TO-MOBROW NIGHT. Among the aefor daredevils constantly associated with Tom Mix, the, Fox star, both in and out of picture;-! ia Bid IJ«rdan, an honest-to-j?oodue.fs cowboy,. whose face nature kindlv, designed so • that he could be an id*ral motion pic- - ture villain of the Western type. .Tordan is cast a* Jack Purdy, the bad man: ia "The Texan," the latest Mix starring pbotodrama, which will be shown to-morrow night. He faya he has no quarrel with his face, but is perfectly content to proceed along the even tenor of screen villainy. He <shootn Mix up a-pleiitv- in some pictures. Then he calmly sticks his flunking pistol into his holster, while the camera is turned off, Mix recovers from his wound, and the two hunt up the rest of the gaug and are off for tome 'e&te" ot for a., ride arvand th- nrrshh-ntnttod 3oz~das is a lyrf ia the-wool cowpunchery. was born ia Muskogee, Okla., and educated at ta«j O-fiokee Indian. school at Vanita, Okl&.. Then h» joined the '■ "101 Bants. ■'. that famous old outfit ■ which provt j to be an employment • bureau for «*vtb*y actors. Jordan has had rather an ft.-it*nded screes career and has appeared in several recect Mix jpieture*.