THE LAMB.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1916, Page 6

THE LAMB.

A WONDERFUL GRIFFITH-TRIANGLE FILM. HOW. A iBROVEN COWARD TURNED HERO. With his cowardice proven when he could not go to the rescue of a drowning girl in New York a few .short montlis before, Mary Anson could expect no help from the man who, terror-stricken, knelt with her in the desert, rifle in hand, facing the hordes of galloping Yaquis, who were tearing towards them in a mad fierce welter of dust and sweat and blood. For this man was ''The Lamb," Gerald Harrison, and with his name was the stigma of cowardice. There was always a scornful little laugh when "The Lamb's" name was mentioned way back in New York. He just didn't amount to anything—he wasn't worthy of the name of ''man." To forget all those things, to live with people who didn't know them, and to try one day to Jive them down, he came to the desert. The uprising.of the Yaquis had found the girl and lie where Fate had thrown them, together in the endless plains aver which he strode in solitude, and to which she came to mock, to taunt and to tempt. Shb handed him a cartridge. He raised his rifle. A horseman pitched over in a smother of curses and dust. Two more she handed him. His lenses knocked; his hands shook with fear that death only could allay. Twice his rifle cracked. A break in the galloping line way over there, and closed a/Yaqui laughing carelessly at the death which bored its way through his cap. But still they rode. What was one man against their hundreds? The girl closAl her eyes. Death was sure now. "This is the last. I suppose you will leave me now, as you did someone else." Well, everyone knows what kind of ending D. W. Griffith gives to his pictures. "The Lamb" is 110 exception. Surprise finish expresses the climax to which he has brought the story. It is Griffithenian in its conception, with all the bigness of scenes and thrills which that term signifies. This picture has had a wonderful reception throughout the cities of the Dominion and. will surely take New Plymouth by storm. Unfortunately, owing to other bookings, it 1 is only available for to-night's screening and the Saturday matinee here. The box plan is at Collier's, where seats can be reserved for either night or the matinee.