AMUSEMENTS.

Grey River Argus, 18 February 1922, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

' PEERLESS PICTURES. MATINEE TO-DAY Wm. Russeli in “Bare Knuckles,” Eddie Polo in “King of the Circus” and a two-reel Mack Sennctt comedy, ' will be shown at the matinee in the Town Hall to-day and again to-night, for the last time. Sunday’s attraction is “The Girl of the Sea,” with an all star cast. This picture had a private screening at the Town Hall and proved of a very high standard. There is ship, the Caribee, and on it a notorious trader Cuttle, and with Allen, the mate, he scuttles the ship. As the life-boat is making for shore, it is seized by a giant octo- { pus, which upsets it. The girl Mimi with I a deed to a mine tied to her, is washed ashore on Devil’s Reef. Cuttie and Rose drift back to civilisation saying they are the only survivors. Verrill, the mine owner has no apparent heirs. Mimi, his daughter being believed dead and his property reverts to the State, and Cuttie buys it. Ten years later, Horace Allen, son of the old mate of the Caribee and Tom Rose, son of her captain, become friends. Horace tries to get Tom. a position in the mine, but Allen refuses. Tom determines to go to the southern sea, locate the wreck and try and clear his father’s name. Horace goes with him, and they find Mimi now a beautiful girl who has lived on the island since childhood. She is a nature girl, and the daughter of Verrill. All this time she has subsisted on the resources of the island. With the aid of Mimi, Tom locates the wreck and finds his father’s body with a knife sticking in its back, and knows that he has been murderecl. Ke is attacked by a giant devil-fish, but is rescued by Mimi. They sail for Verauga with the evidence. Cuttie "hears of the action, and lands there in an effort to block Tom, but after a court case and fights, Tom wins out.