AMUSEMENTS.
BERNARD'S PICTURES. To-night will be the grand finale of a high-class series of star pictures, headed by "The Career of Napoleon." from coronation to St. Helona. The supporting films include educational, dramatic and comic, and also "The Latest Pathe; Gazette." Monday's programme is headed by the drama, "The iltaiders." This is a story of life in the wilds of the Kentucky Mountains, where a gang of "Moonlighters" are engaged in working an illicit whisky still. The play, which occupies over half an hour in the enactment, is brimful with exciting incidents. Mary Evans, the daughter of the head of the gang, is to marry Jack Keane, one of the "moonlighters." The latter has a dangerous rival in Bill Gale, who is wrathful when Mary weds Keane. In order to be revenged upon Keane the villainous Gale turns informer and receives £SO reward from the authorities. He leads the revenue officers to the vicinity of the still, but the "moonlighters" have kept a vigilant watch for outsiders, with the result that they put up a most determined fight with rifles ; against the. representatives of the law. Gale, during the thick of the battle, runs away, hut is seen and wounded by one of the gang. Gale takes refuge in Mary's house. By a ruse Mary induces Gale to run away from the revenue officers, who pursue him as one of the "moonlighters" and shoot the traitor.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 11 July 1914, Page 5
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