HAYWARD'S PICTURES AND KING EDWARD THEATRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17033, 18 June 1917, Page 8

HAYWARD'S PICTURES AND KING EDWARD THEATRE.

A story on decidedly novel lines was shown at tho Octagon and King Edward theatres on Saturday for the first time. The Iced Bullet," for such is the name ii picture Illustrative of the storv, tells of the mysterious shooting of "a man and the unravelling of the mystery by a New York investigator ' of crime. Ihe detective, at the same time, wins the love of a beautiful girl, so that there is a combination of love and mystery about the picture. The author of "The Iced Bullet" a great picture studio, and is . ignommiously ejected. He falls asleep, and. dreams a dream which takes a 'story form Richard Deering spends a time at his lodge in company with his daughter Evelyn and his ward. Donald Irreene, who wishes to marry Evelyn, but this the father objects to, owing to there being a strain of insanity in the Greene family. During Greene's absence, many miles away from the lodge, Deering is shot under most mysterious conditions, and ilorace Lee, a famous detective, is called in to . clear matters up. He finally discovers that a.n infernal machine hidden in the wall, which is operated in such a way that the freezing of a block fires a revolver pointing at Deering's bed, is the cause of the mischief. Greene returns to the lodge with the object of removing tho apparatus, and is caught in tho act. Ho becomes hopelessly insane, escanes on -his way to an asylum, and returns to the lodge. Ho sees Lee holding Evelyn in his arms, r.nd shoots at him without effect. And here -the dreamer awakens. There are .own the fourteenth instalment of Glorias Romance" and a very good Pathe Gazette.