THE pALACE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14567, 1 April 1918, Page 7

THE pALACE

Saturday's huge audience was \ delighted with the great eight-act Metro -feature, "Under Handicap," screened at the Palace on Saturday night. The story is as follows: Greek Conniston, son of William Conniston, a Wall Street broker, is ordered .by his father to. stop spending money, foolishly and' join him m _ California. He starts westward, taking with him Roger Hapgood, who is practically living on his bounty. "Conniston and Hapgood. get off the train at a desert town, a Western girl of unusual : charm being the attraction.. They ride seventy j miles to a ranchv where the girl, Argyll , Crawford, lives. Conniston telegraphs his I father ior more money. Word comes I that, henceforth he must shift for himself, and he accepts a job ag cowboy. Hapgood proposes to Argyll and Is repulsed. He then sells his services as lawyer to Crawford's rivals, who are trying to ruin his reclamation project. Conniston "breaks" a broncho, and "licks" the ranch bully, thus winning "the respect, of the boys and Argyll.: He goes to work under the superintflaient on the reclamation project, which must be completed at a specified date. In case of failure Crawford will lose everything. Incited by a rival concern, the workmen one night -engage m a drunken Tlot. Conniston takes command and orders tho nien back to work. Hapgood and the rival owner dynamite the dam to make the completion of the work an impossibility. Young Conniston rushes the work and repairs the damage, -and claims his reward, the Jove of Argyll. .