AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 16 November 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS. The French patriotic picture, “Afsace,” shown last night to a gooahouse, was, a very thrilling and inspiring production. It shows the spirit of the French nation. It will be shown for the last time to-night. To-morrow night “Fred Mace Crooked to the End” will be shown, and on Saturdaynight for one night only Mary Pickford’s masterpeice, “The Dawn of a Tomorrow” will be the star.,.;

EVERYBODY’S. “HOP, THE DEVIL’S BREW.” Lydia Jansen is a faithful and lov. ing wife, though, unknown to her bus* band, a Customs’ inspector, has become addicted to smoking opium. In the parlance of the underworld, -shis devil’s brew is called “hop.” Her .own father, a politician in the city where they live, is the head of an opium importing gang, which is the principal medium whereby the addicts obtain their supply of opium. Lydia’s craving for the drug is so great and the desire to conceal it from her husband so strong, that she is embroiled in a series of blackmailing attempts by her maid, w r ho is affianced to tne stevedore through whom most of the opium is landed from the vessels by which it is smuggled. Her attempts to satisfy her craving for hop at a time -when the Government is closing in upon the smugglers, excites her husband's suspicions and, of course, he thinks another man has entered her life. It is only through an almost' superhuman exercise of will power that she finds the strength to conquer her appetite and confess to her husband the terrible habit which she had formed, and thus relieving the terrible suspicion which has grown like a haunting nightmare into his very life. The shock of finding that he hascontributed to his daughter’s downfall causes the father’s suicide.