AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 August 1926, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS

EMPIRE THEATRE TO-NIGHT

‘SIEGE"

Aunt Augusta Ruyland, head of the Ruyland Clan and of the great Ruyland Factories, announces at a dinner the_engagement of her favourite nephew, Kenyon, to her niece, Alberta, not knowing that lie loves Fredericks, a. -New York girl. Kenyon marries Fredericks, whose modern icleas of dress and comportment gain the violent dislike of Aunt Augusta. Her private detective discovers that Fredericks is receiving roses from an unknown man, and her weak-willed husband, dominated by his aunt, becomes mad with jealous hate when he hears of it. Accused of infidelity, she leaves him- and goes to her mother. Norval Ruyland, another nephew, mute since birth, who has worshipped Fredericks secretly, admits having sent her the roses. He is ridiculed by the clan until ho commits suicide, leaving his factory stock to Fredericks, who now owns a controlling interest in the mills, unseating Aunt Augusta as head of the industry. The climax is thrilling. Theatre Royal, to-night—-“ The Air Mail.” The story has to do with the activities of a band of crooks who go about the systematic robbing of the U.S. air mail planes. Baxter manages to: get a job. as pilot aboard one of the planes and settles down to wait for a valuable cargo to make away with. By a peculiar twist in the story, however, lie hot only , gives up all ideas of theft, bill also brings to justice the members of two rival bands of crooks who make it their business to prey upon the air mailmen.