QUEEN'S THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16980, 17 April 1917, Page 3

QUEEN'S THEATRE

A good specimen • of the detective drama heads the new programme at the Queen Theatre. The plot is located in "Tho House of Fear," wherein lived Cramp, a clover engraver, who made somo counterfeit bank note plates that had not been brought into use, but are much coveted by a gang of_ Mexicans who desire to profit by their illicit use. The engraver's son refuses to part with his late father's handiwork, and the gang send him tho death sign_ in token of tho fato that awaits his persistent refusal to part with the plates. In his dilemma, he consults his friend Pendleton, a Now York detective, and also Ashton Kirk; who has a hobby for probing into criminal mysteries, and, as a result, a trap is 'laid for the gang. The way in which tho rascals are outwitted' is so very •cleverly depicted that keen interest is excited from start to finish. A Vim comedy, "The Chalk Line," and a well-selected number of the Topical Budget, make the sum total of an attractive programme.

While handling a Darcel at Blyth station, a porter, Thomas Gibb, was stiot through tho arm by a revolver inside the parcel.