PEERLESS PICTURES

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1918, Page 4

PEERLESS PICTURES

FRANCIS K. BUSHMAN MATINEE. "Tho Adopted Son," a six-act Metro, featuring Francis K. Bushman and Beverly Bayne will be the big . attraction at the matinee Uo-day. The Land of Promise" will be screened at the evening performance. SUNDAY— "THE SECRET GAME." Sessue Hayakawa, the popular Japanese artist will appear on Sunday evenifng in "The Secret Game," a five-reel Jesse L. Lasky feature. "The Secret Game," is a romance of the secret service, in which Nara-Nara, the famous Japanese detective, works to save fnom destruction the American transports that are secretly carrying American troops across! the Paciilfic to surprise the enemy on tho Russian front. It has become known tpo the Secret Service that there is a leak somewhere in official circles, and tin's leak has been traced tc the office of one Major Northfield, V.S., quartermaster |of the Paciific coast. The American Secret Service has declared Major Northfield to be above suspicion, but nevertheless, Nara-Nara resolves to watch hi?m, and for this purpose hires an office next to his, where he sets himself up as a "Japanese importer." The truth of the matter is; that' little Kitty Little, a stenographer ii!n Northfield 's office, is the real "leak" through which important news is" reaching the enemy. It is Dr. Smith who has procured the position for Kitty in Northfield 's for he pretends to be a great friend of the Major's, He it is who invites Kitty and Miss Loring, Northfield 's private secretary, to a little! dinner, during the course of which he i4"> drugs Miss Loring 's coffee that she loses consciousness, and is taken with a sort of amnesia. Kijtty is promoted ip Miss Loring 's position, where she has access to all the important documents. At about this stage in affairs, NaraNara does not' know whom to suspect, but still believes Northfield himself to bo the traitor.