EMPIRE THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16873, 9 December 1916, Page 2

EMPIRE THEATRE

T.'io new programme presented yesterday at tho Empire Theatre is crowded with attractive features. " Tho Masked glider " is a revenue detectivc story of phenomenally exciting in its presentment, tho hero, featured by Mr Harold Loekwood. having undertaken to rout a gang of moonshiners infesting tho hilly country in North Carolina, and at the same time avenge the murder of his brother (ieorge, a landscape painter, who. in tho courso of his scarch for the beautiful in Nature, discovers even greater charms in -June Jamison, a mountain lass (featured by Miss May Allison), daughter of Jimmy Jamison. keeper of the Bat Cave Hotel. The growing friendship of the two young people exoitcs the jealousy of " Squid'" Archer, boss of the moonshiners, 'the result being quarrels between the riv ils Subsequently George Edmunds is found dead with a bullet wound in his head. Bruce, to aid him in his detective work, first assumes the character of a parson, and preaches to tho roughs that less bullets and more Bibles would bf good for them. Later ho prosecutes his investigations : n the character of a masked rider, dressed in white buckskin, mounted on a black horse. There arc some very exciting sc-'iies connected with the capture of thi' moonshiners, and at the final scene quite a battlefield is screened, where Ihe sheriff's mounted men surround the gang in their mountain fastness. " Squid" escapes capture, and gallops his hardest to Jamison's hotel for the purpose of • arrying off June. Bruce Edmunds is close on his heels, and when tho encounter takes, place there is a dingdong fight, in which Bruce is disabled by a revolver shot in his shoulder. Before " Squid" can do further damage with his shooting iron June knocks him insensiblo by a vigorous blow with a chair. She nurses Bruce, until his recovery, and, of course, ultimately they are married, and the gang meet their deserts. The topical picture gives interesting Swiss Army sketches, and in " The Jungle Brats" performing monkovs behave in the most diverting manner. "Tho Cowpuncher's Peril" present dramatic incidents in a striking manner. There will be a reproduction of these attractions to-day.