AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3382, 10 January 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

" AT THE KING’S_ E “THE HEART OF WETONA.” 1 Another great First National success, “The Heart of Wetona,” featuring’ Norma Talmadge, makes its initial appearance at The King’s to-night. The- _ brand is suflicienta to -guarantee an ex--'ceptional night of perfect _entertain- ' Iment; Wetona, the daughter of Quannah, chief of the tribe of Comaches, {is chosen to act -as vestlal virgin at a. * Corn Dance, to be given in connection‘ with some -ancient rites that the tribe ‘is contemplating hol°(Tlng. She refuses to accept the ofier, saying she is not fit to bring food to the Holy Spirit. She tells her father that no girl that has loved the way she has is worthy of such an honour. Her father is amazed. For the first time he: realises‘ ‘that his daughter is not the kind of girl she ought to be. Wetona’s mother was a-white woman. She tells herfather that her 10-ver is a white, man, but Will’ not tell his name. Quannah decides to find out who he is, and then kill him. Wetona. goes to John Hardin, ‘agent of the reservation, to beg him to save the life of her lover. While they are talking Quannah 811' ters, and thinks that Hardin is his daughter’s lover, Hardin, who reall.V.' loves Wetona but has. never told her so, decides to marry her in order to save her. Later it is 9l(‘,.'ll'I1(?(.l that Anthony Wells is the man that wrong's ed Wotona. Wetona has since learned what kind of a man Wells replly 55: and with her fat'her’:< ‘L"oT.=‘{§-""7“~"‘>'3 and Hardin ’s love she is ziaain made }‘3PP.‘.'-