WORLD'S PICTURES—TO-NIGHT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 8

WORLD'S PICTURES—TO-NIGHT

"THE FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE."

The Mutual masterpiece, "The Forbidden Adventure," is most unusual in its plot and theme. All the scenes are laid in and about the great Arabian deserb. The story deals with, life in a city in the deserts of Arabia, where the rules governing the priests are specially severe. No priestess must speak to a man under penalty of the hidden death. Dhur, one of the priests, is in love with the beautiful priestess Ameera, who spurns him and falls in love with a young handsome American, Cecil Weatherley. They meet often, and, discovered by tne priest, are betrayed and condemned to the hidden death. They are bound together and lowered into an awful pit in the city of the dead. By a miracle they esoaoe, and after a terrible ordeal , reach 'the" desert and manage to rejoin I their friends. Nursed back to health and strength, they are married and live, happily ever afterwards. i BABY COMPETITION. After the results of last nighfc's vot- , ing. No. 66. with 210 votes, is still in the lead; No. 48, 182 vbtes, is second; No. 9, 168 votes, third'; No. 25, 137 votes, fourth. To .enable country pati rons to judge in the competition, the photographs will be screened on Thursday (to-morrow) afternoon, in conjunction with the programme.