AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

A GREAT FILM. AT THE EMPIRE

WILDFLOWEE—TO-NIGHT. At the Theatre Royal to-night, the Famous Players five-reel feature film introducing Marguerite Clark, will make its first appearance in New Plymouth. Miss Clark's "Letty Roberts" (Wildflower) is a bewitching characterisation which has captured the hearts of thousands of picture-lovers the world over. Briefly the story tells of Letty Roberts, an unsophisticated child of Nature. Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who meets Letty, is delighted with her daintiness and fragile beauty. He thinks of her only as an interesting child, however, and when visited by his scapegrace brother, Gerald, who is by his own confession "a constant worshipper at the shrine of woman," Arnold views with alarm Gerald's flirtatious attitude towards little Letty. After a tempestuous wooing, Letty elopes with Gerald. Arnold immediately pursues the pair, reaching them just after the wedding .ceremony has been concluded. After a struggle with his brother, Arnold knocks Gerald down and spirits Letty away from her new-made husband, despite her desperate efforts to' escape. Arnold introduces her to the members of his household as his wife, telling Letty this course is necessary to protect her reputation, but not fully explaining why. Overborne by Arnold's arguments and masterful manner, Letty reluctantly consents to remain in the Boyd home fer a while, as Arnold's "wife in name only," till such time as Gerald should come to claim her. The strange secret that Arnold is guarding from her is at lust revealed, and the stern, elder brother, who had at flr't only sought to save a woman's reputation, and guard his own family honor, now comes to dream only of love. As ' Letty grows to know Arnold better she finds* that the older brother is not the cruel master she had thought him, but the finer man .of the two, and at last the drooping little YV'ildilowcr revives and blooms happily in the garden ef Arnold's faithful love.