"THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 11 January 1916, Page 5

"THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY."

TO-MORROW NIGHT.

Another monster programme is annmmced for to-morrow night at Everybody's" when the Tannhouser Company will present the third great complete? episode of the mysterious serial, "The Million Dollar Mystery" entitled "A Leap in the Dark." For the benefit of those who missed the first two episodes the synopsis is as follows:—Hargreaves, millionaire and traitor member of a, Russian sceret society, the "Black Hundred," plans to escape _their vengeance by disappearing with his only daughter Florence, and a million dollars he has drawn from the bank. He makes his escape in a balloon./ The million dollars disappear mysteriously. They search the house vainly for the money and also try to kidnap Florence, but their plan is frustrated in an exciting manner by Norton, a butler. The synopsis of episode No. 3, "A Leap in the Dark," is: Reports having come to hand that an ocean liner has brought ashore a stranger rescued from a wrecked balloon with 5000 dollars in his pocket Norton sets out to find him. The scene shifts from one place to another as the gang endeavor to secure their victim. Faster grows the plot and more spectacular the sensations, as the r'rois revealed upon the screen. The programme also includes "The Departure of the 6th Reinforcements-" "Pathe War Gazette," "San Remo "'a charming so*iic; "A Mother's Justice," a powerful drama- by the Reliance Company; "Chiefly Concerning Males," a charming Vitagraph comedy ; ( "Cartoons in a Hotel," a clever and witty Edison series; and one of the Keystone Company's new society^ comedies, "Mabel Won and Lost." Seats may be reserved at the Theatre.