OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 2 August 1922, Page 3

OTAKI THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT. "Hardeen," the hand-cuff king, a very clever performer, will give an exhibition of his powers at the theatre tonight, when he will be seen "sawing through a ""man." The act leaves one baffled. Several new and novel tricks will also be shown, while the In-1 ■ linn "thumb-tie" will he introduced. I "Hardeea" recently mystified a Levin audience when a wager of £1(1 wa« made by Mr Isherwood thai Hardee.ii could not free himself from haiid-cnfis, chains, ele. Mr Isherwood lost, the bet. TO-NIUHT. "SCRAP IRON." John Steel is one of the most popular employees of the biggest mill in a Western industrial city. Hi- prowess with the gloves has made him a hero with most of the mill workers, and Midge Flannigan, the belle of the village is his girl. The one flaw in John's happiness is the ill-health of his widowed mother, and he works hard so that he ean take her to a. healthier climate. At the request of his mother he gives up Voxing, and many of the men thinking he is cpwardly, nickname him "Scrap Iron." They are convinced of this when at the annual picnic of the mills

he. refuses to hit drunken Bill Dugan, •who is annoying Midge. When Battling Burke, a professional pugilist. knocks Dugan unconscious, Midge deserts John and accept? attentions from Burke. John gains one everlasting friend, however, by helping Dugan feomp. Then he loses his job through latenom caused by attending to the wants of his mother. He fails to find Other work and as his savings disappear and his mother's condition beoomes worse, he is desperate. He sees an announcement that Big Tim Riley is looking for men to face Battling Burke in the ring. Steel offers himself, and Riley promises him 200 dollars if he lasts three rounds with Burke, but not a cent if he is knocked out before that time. "Scrap Iron" goes into the ring and takes an unmerciful beating, for, when Burke finds that Steel is giving all attention to defends aad none to offence, he throws, caution to The wind and starts for a knock-out. ."Scrap Iron" lasts through tjje three rounds and Marts in the fourth, with bis 200 dollars safe*, to hit Burke £t least a few times before he gQes OUT. The surprise comes -.Then the infuriated /'Scrap Iron,"knocks Burke out. Then ijmj-s p interesting dims*.