AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 12821, 13 April 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

FULLERS- PICTURES. Heading the new bill to be screened at tilt? Opera House this evening is a four-act masterplav entitled "Up from the .Depths." This impressive picture features that well-known player Courtenay Foot© and is an arresting story of a girl's heroic battle and a man's regeneration. This wonderful play tears aside the veil .of Prudery and Pretence. - It is a throbbing story of woman's error and a man's injustice. Dare Vincent is a happy girl who meets a man posing as a. great missionary-. She hears him speak at one of the great open-air meetings of the Revivalists. He sees her and mentally marks her as fair and innocent prey for his rapacity. ■He speaks to Tier that afternoon, disguising liis real intentions under the cloak of "adviser," and 'through: his. professions of love, induces the girl to leave for the city with him. What chance had a good, pure-living girl against the oily sentimental speeches of a practical hypocrite? A year later lie leaves her, a mother, but not a wife. He goes to a bigger city and meets with great success. Dare Vincent, the once thoughtless, happy child, now an .outcast from her home, decides to follow liim to New York, where his fame is increasing by leaps and bounds, and people think he is a great and good man.' She now learns that is married. In Now \ ork she tries to see him. but the hand of Society intervenes. It allows him to rise, but forces her to sink. One day that hand is raised for a minute. Then there is a conflict wherein all the evil of the hvpocrito asserts itself, and the .latent good within an abandoned soul rises to tile surface—a conflict which is, too, a battle of the sexes, and a climax of terrific force. ' Included in well-chosen supnorts arc the "Australian Gazette" and "Waifs of die Sea."

HAY WARD'S PICTURES. The feature film in to-night's screening at the Picture Palace will be "The Lion's Cubs," a patriotic drama in which a startling exposure of the German spy system is revealed. Karl Kampf, of the Gorman Secret Service, is instructed: to steal from two French sroncrals- at the Trafalgar Srpiare Hotel, London, copies of despatches containing the Allies' plan of campaign. The Frenchmen take a train journey. Kampf travels by! the same train, as also does Edward's, of Scotland Yard, who is an his track. When Kampf secures the papers lie is to throw them from the train to Schoeberg, an accomplice. Kampf bores a hole in the partition and inserts, the neck of'a cylintPer filled with >ras. The Frenchmen arc overcome bv the fumes, and Kampf, securing the papers, throws them from the window. Billy, a Boy Scout, sees Schocbcrg pick up the package, and becoming suspicious follows him. He sees him later when joined by Kampf, and overhears their conversation. He manages to secure the papei's. but the loss is discovered and tiie spies start in pursuit. They lose the boy's track, and Billy, although wounded, reaches the Scouts' cainj> and tells his story. A strong detachment hastens to intercept the spies, ancl the Germans are on the point of escaping in an aeroplane when, the boys .swarm round and overpower them, and carry them off triumphantly to headquarters. The supporting programme is a strong one and "Cradle of the Australian Navy," 'The Refugee," "Italian Marble Quarries," and "The Professional Scapegoat."