OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 13 February 1922, Page 3

OTAKI THEATRE.

“THE TURN IN THE ROAD.’’ TO-NIGHT. The son of a wealthy iron manufacturer openly loves the beautiful younger daughter of one of the town clergymen", while the young man is loved in secret by the elder daughter, who is of a quieter, more practical nature, and her father’s helper. The wedding of the-* youthful pair takes place. A little more than a year later a child is born and the mother dies. Almost insane with grief, the husband reproaches tho clergyman for having prca'cked tho doctrine of a God who cruelly afflicts his children with sorrow; and unable to reconcile himself to his sorrow he rushes away and buries himself in the slums of Chicago, soarehing for tho truth in connection with the purpose of God. In the meantime his little son is cared for by his wife’s sister. One day when he has doeided to move on from the city he boards a freight train and finally arrives at his native town, and stealing into his father’s barn goes to sleep in the hay. The child, who has come to his grandfather’s house in the night, goes into the loft to feed his puppies and discovers the man asleep in the hay. His aunt, coming in search of the child, recognises her bro-ther-in-law, as he is listening to the child’s story of the source of happiness, which he tells him is love. The picture closes with the man burying his head in tho lap of the child, whom lie has discovered to be his own. Incidental to the story are a number of things which throw light on the lives bf the characters, such as the feud between tho iron manufacturer and his workmen.