AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 19 December 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “The Vampire.” —Jeanne is accidentally injured while touring in an automobile. In her convalescence she meets a married man, who realises he can only win her by offering marriage. An illegal marriage ceremony is performed, and later the man abandons Jeanne, who becomes an outcast and a man-hater. Seeking refuge in Europe, Jeanne meets on the steamer two men outcasts, and they all conspire against the world. Jeanne becomes notorious as a scheming and heartless woman, and the epithet “Vampire ’ is applied to her. She enmeshes a young attache of the American Legation, and after securing valuable documents from him, she finds she is in love wiki him. One of her co-conspirators, whom she met on the steamer, comes into possession of these secret papers, and when trying to get the papers back to return them to the attache, Jeanne discovers that the young attache is the son of the man responsible for her min. Her old hate is awakened again. Events bring all back to New York. Complications involve Jeanee with both the father and son, and the young man’s fiancee. The young man breaks his engagement declares his love for Jeanne, and his father is forced to give his consent to their marriage. A dramatic scene is introduced when the father discovers that Jeanne is none other than the woman he married illegally and desert ed. The father accuses Jeanne of being an adventuress. She wrings from him a. confession before his son that he had deceived her. The son throws convention to the winds and decides to marry Jeanne, but he is prevented by the woman herself, tv ho is threatened with exposure of the part she played in securing the State documents. Jeanne brings about a reconciliation between the young attache and his fiancee, realising that a aaph' marriage could never have resuiteu if she had married him herself, while be had full knowledge of the history cf her past.