AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1915, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THEATKE ROYAL. The big feature of a good all-round programme presented to patrons of this theatre last night was a photo play of the early pioneering days in the West, when the White (and with him his bad whisky) invaded the land of the Red. The legend of "the Arrow's Tongue," is opened when on the turning of the first furrow the bones of a human and the tell-tale arrow are found. Fifty years previous, Sacashu, the beautiful daughter of a chief, is sold to a whisky runner and her lover swears vengeance. Eleven years pass when the lover is made chief and starts oil the warpath of revenge. The band sets fire to the home of the whisky runner, arid iSiwashu is retaken, but her son when escaping on horseback is shot in the hack bv an arrow from the enraged chief's how. On dashes the boy clinging to his flying steed, the arrow, as they gallop across the plains, telling the story to the pioneers who assemble together for defence. The story of the arrow is also read by a scout who brings a rescue party in time to the emigrants. In the meantime, Sacashu, believing her son dead in the burnt home sets out, and in the final fight kills the chief and she herself is shot. It is a go«d picture. An unusual Indian romance also forms the subject of another picture, and in the supporting films, the comics are perhaps the better, Dr. Bridget, in which, the late John Bunny takes part, being the best. This programme will be screened again to-night.