OCTAGON THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17954, 5 June 1920, Page 13

OCTAGON THEATRE

A double feature programme was presented at tho Octagon Theatre yesterday afternoon and evening, when a Paramount comedy, "The Desert Hero," and a D W. , Griffith production, "True Heart busie, were screened. The plot in "The insert Hero ' has a setting in the back,b>ocks, and shows "Fatty" Arbuckle's coming to Carboho Camp loaded with gold dust after many weary months of toil in tho desert. Some of tho more avaricious souls endeavour to steal the bags of gold from him, but by tho intervention of a danco hall girl, the plot is thwarted. I'atty, in helping the girl who had befriended him, shdws such prowess with his shooting irons that he is elected sheriff by aoclamation. Tho sad records of the previous holders of tho position, would have scared an ordinary person, but. nothingdaunted he accepts the post, and in doing sq, supplies some of the best motion picture comedy seen for many months. Tho story of the other feature, "True Hoirt busie, relates how Susie May Trueheart. an awkward, straighforward, true hearted school girl of the country, loves with wondrous loyalty William Jenkins, n bov neighbour. Sho watches him adoringly' at school, and when ono day a politician promises to five the boy a start in life, they both await the fulfilment of the promise which never comes. Susie d-ecides that she will send William to school himWlf, for she wants Hie man she marries to be educated. He goes through college and is ordained minister quite unaware that ono is sacrificing herself for him. Appointed to, the pastorate of the village church, William returns home, and falK'no- in love with Bettv Hookins, a lightheaded butterBy from the city ,ho marries her. Following the marriage, matters at the parsonace do not progress smootkly; Vaguely William that he had mad 6 a mistakethat in Susie, and not Befctina, he might have _ found his true mate. Bettina sees occasionally members of the little fast set of tho near-by town, w.nom.shc knew before her marriage. She dances with a former beau, Sporty Mal/>ne. and receives his kisses, and when William comes homo unexpectedly, convinces him that he has been entirely rnistalyen in what he thought he saw. Later, .pettina. attends a danoe with oporty, and is caught in the rain on the way homcj only to find—drenched and shivering,—that she has lost her kev and cannot eet into the house unobserved. In she_ goes to Susie, who takes her 'xi for the night. Susie keeps Bettina's secr.et—and again William is deceived. But tive cold proves serious, settles on the girlwife s lungs, and she dies. In time William learns the truth, and finally marries Libam Gish takes the part of i>usie, and Robert Harron the part of WilJ/w, i su "Por l !i are a Bray picturegraph and a Bray Magazine.