“THE DISCIPLE.”

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5476, 18 April 1917, Page 3

“THE DISCIPLE.”

W. S. HART IN TRIANGLE DRAMA

“ X was fightin’ for yon, but you threw me down.” The man who uttered these words gazed at the heavens, the shreds of what had been five minutes before the clerical broadcloth hanging f• om his ."shoulders. In his hand he grasped a note from his wife. “ I am going with Hardy,” it read, “ I realise I am unworthy of you. Please forget me.” The man was a parson from the backwoods, who had entered the western town to clean it up. He had built a rough church, and held his first service there. Half an hour later he had found his home deserted, save for his three year old daughter, and his wife gone with Doc Hardy, the saloon keeper. Embittered against jGod and the man he took his child into the mountains. They lived iu a, hut beyond the call of the town, but Xigain when the child went down a helpless, delirous victim to the mountain fever the shack shook with the wrath of the voice that cried:—“ You’ve struck mo again—from behind.”

The child was sick, she called frequently for her mother, who has gono the way of many, and the only man who could save the child was the man who had betrayed the woman. These are the eveuts which bring “ The Disciple” to a powerful climax. It is an Ince Triangle feature, showing at the Theatre Royal to-night and to-morrow, and is regarded as the strongest drama the company have so far produced. The role of the parson is taken by William S. Hart, who iu this feature, reaches emotional heights truly remarkable for screen work.