THE PEOPLE’S PICTURES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145998, 3 December 1917, Page 6

THE PEOPLE’S PICTURES.

“THE MUMMY AND THE. HUMMING BIRD” FINISHES TO-NIGHT. The excellent current programme which attracted a large audience on Saturday receives its final screening tonight. “THE GOLDEN FETTER” TOMORROW. FEATURING WALLACE REID, SUPPORTED BY ANITA KING, In “The Golden Fetter,” Faith Milter, a school teacher, inherits ten thousand dollars, and buys a share in a mine for nine thousand dollars. Advised by friends to take a'rest, Faith goes to inspect her mine. Arriving at the town, she is insultingly approached, and the man who lias annoyed her is knocked down by Jim Ralston. a voung mining engineer. She goes to the homo of Big Annie, who tells her that the mine is worthless The miners, touched by her beauty and 'Helplessness, engage her to teach their school, the only available pupils being Pete. ia half-wit, and Jim. who is held in connection with a hold-up committed by Edson and M‘olll. At first Jim rebels, but when he secs the teacher he becomes a willing student. Faith recognises him as her protector. Jim conceives the idea of salting the mine, and wires the former owners, who are crooks, that the mine is rich with silver, and not to sell. They return. pursued by a. posse, reach the school-house, and persuade Jim to conceal them.

Flynn, at the head of the posse, accuses Jim of hiding the bandits, and Is immediately killed by a shot from an unseen hand.' Jim is arrested as the murderer. Faith intercedes, begs him to floe and is handcuffed to him. They escape and take refuge" in a mountain cabin. Jim shoots the fetter apart, breaking his wrist, and insists that Faith return homo. As Jim tells Slade of Faith’s whereabouts, Slade notices the fetter on his hand, takes him to the outskirts of the town, and the miners prepare to hang him. Faith sells her interest in the mine back to Slade, and Pete as he delivers a note to her from Jim. also tells Faith of Jim’s peril. The outlaws. F.dson and M'Gill, are shot as they resist arrest, Ed-son’s dying confession of Flynn’s murder reaching Jim’s executioners just as they refuse to listen to Faith’s pleading for her lover’s life. Faith, weakened hv the trying ordeals through which she has passed, sinks to the ground, only to be taken into the waiting arms of the man she loves. The latest Australian and American Gazettes are also shown.