STRAND THEATRE.
A film or unusual interest is "The Romance of Hlnemoa," dow being scroenod at the Strand Theatre. It tells tho most beautiful and bestknown of Maori legends. The story tells how t young chief who loves a neighbouring chief's daughter Is wrongfully accused of theft. He is sentenced to trial by ordeal, having to pass through tho terrible Valley of Fire, a crater in an active volcano, where the air is filled with sulphur fumes and the earth Is a network of pools of boiling water and bollIng mud. Ho survives tho ordeal and returns to his tribe. Later tho girl decides to leave her tribe to bo with her lover,'and swims across Lake Rotorua to him. With tho exposure of tho actual thief all ends well. "Tho Fato of a Plirt/.' a comedy starring Dorothy Itovier, is also screened. The accompanying Maori melodies, played by the orchestra, are a feature of tho entertainment.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 46, 26 February 1929, Page 5
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156STRAND THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 46, 26 February 1929, Page 5
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