AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 September 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS

“Mister 44” is the piquant title of the Metro-Yorke production to be shown at the Three Stars to-nigth,. and it tells a story that is gripping, and has its foundation im the most vital emotions of the human heart. In “Mister 44” Mr Lockwood and Miss May Allison do some of the death and accident defying deeds for which they have become famous, and the fascinating personalities of these stars illuminate a story which is worth while, delightfully told and admirably screened. Sadie Hicks, a fac.-. tory girl ? surrounded by men inferior of mind and body, dreams over her work of a “real man with a 44 chest." She tucks a note into a shipment of shirts just being sent away. Her note is received by John Stoddard, a wealthy civil engineer camping in theCanadian woods. He writes her tolet him know if she ever needs anything. The simple girl takes him at his word, and as she is discharged from the factory for repulsing the advances of the foreman, telegraphs Stoddard that she is “ coming and takes the next train : for his How he - handles the situation,> how the two meet in the wilderness and encompassed by dangers learn to know each other’s inmost nature; how Sadie runs away and his determined search for her } with its happy ending, forms a story of power and fundamental humanity.