AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 September 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS '"Cora," the great Metro drama, screened at the Three Star s to-night features Miss Emily Stevens, in the sjtory "Make -Belieive\v M[adam|t Renee, a fallen operatic idol of Paris comes to America with her daughter Cora to seek a home. Madame Renee becomes ill and after several weeks of striving and struggling to succeed- she dies, leaving Cera alone and in destitute circumstances. In the tenement house where Cora's mother died there lives Marie and her crippled sister," Louise, and they take Cora to live with them .when her mother passes away. Marians an artist model aßd pose s for George a famous artist. The artist is engaged to be married to Helen, the daughted of a very wealthy woman of high social standing. The wealthy woman, Mrs. Van Brook, has arranged the marriage of her daughter to satisfy her social ambitions. The artist really does not love her but being tired of living a lonely bachelor's life he suffers his engagement to the girl to be announced. The girl, Helen, does not really love the artist, but complies with her mother's, wishes and engages herself to the artist simply because of her mother and also because she realises that the man is a famous artist and. by marrying him her' social standing will be upheld. She is really in love with Carl Wilson, a young club man who is a ne'er-do-well. Through a long series of thrilling events ..and enchanting scenes Cora and the artist meet, then comes the grand denoument. EVERYBODY'S Pierre Rameau, the ; son of a poor gate tender, becomes, through a natural aptitude for the medical pr|Aession, the foremost physician and surgeon in Paris. Conchita, (his wife), whom he loves above everything on earth, dies leaving an infant daughter. Rarneau is inconsolable. K<f keeps the room before his wife died inviolate, visiting it on every anniversary of her death. Many years later on one of. these, visits he discovers among her letters evidence proving that his wife had been unfaithful, that Pamela, whom he had reared from childhood to budding woanhood, is not his child. The shock almost unbalances his mind. He drives the girl from his home, and refuses to go to her even when she is thought to be dying. His best friend, Dr. Talavanne, almost drags him to her bedside As he enters the room the girl stretches out her arms to him, Rameau is conquered. His hate for the innocent child is dissipated by the sight of her suffering. Like a fiend he labours to save her from death, bringing all his skill and science to bear, and in the end he is successful. Pamela is saved for a life of love and happiness. Frederick Perry, star of "On Trial," and other recent dramatic successes, far surpasses in the speaking stage, and the supporting company, which includes Dorothy Bernard, Stuart Hoicks, Jean Sotheru, and George Alison, is one of the strongest ever brought together upon the screen. Supports include the final episode of '' Peg 'o the Ring.''"