AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, 19 November 1919, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

PAE^! TOT - One of the big features at the Paramount to-night wiU be "The Hose of Paradise." The wife o{ Thomas Singleton dies giving birth ■ to a daughtef, Virginia. The trag- ' edy unbalances Singleton's mind, and he is put in an asvlum. Jordon Singleton's half-brother, becomes the legal guardian of the child. Knowing that Virginia has inherited quite a fortune, he plots to secure it. When Virginia is eighteen years old her father escapes from the saniforium. After establishinc his identity and repealing Morse's scheme he sends Virginia to "Lafe" j Grandoken. an old friend. The death j of Singleton occurs shortly after tbp ; departure of his daughter.. While picking flowers in tT5e woods near urandoken's homc f Virginia is acoosted by Moulding Bates, the town bullv. but aid comes in the person of Theodore King, with whom she Dad become acquainted some timp ago. For threatening to tell Grandoken of his Hot to get Virginia's monev Morse kftls Bates, and, by a subterfuge fastens the blame on Grandoken. Virginia is a witness to the murder, and Morse, fearing that she will inform the authorities, imprisons her in a dilapidated house, but she escapes, and at th'e crucial moment during the inquest she appears and tells her storv. Morse "c nrTf<ed unrter arrest, and King, who has fallen in love with. Viriginia. finds that his love *s reciprocated, •and the two are subsequently married. Miss Bessie Barriscale is perfect in the chief role. Wtn. Fox will present popular l ; ttle June Caprice in her latest comedy dram? success, which is entitled "Hearts of Romance." _ f4 OOS? M THEATRE, "THE HEART OF WETONA." The, chief attraction at the Cosy Theatre to-nitrht will be the sevenreeler dramatic masterplay. "The Heart of Wetona," in which charmi ing Norma is entrusts ; with the leading part. Wetona, the . daughter of Quannah, chief of a , tribe of the Oomaches. is cjiosen to act as vestal virgin at a corn dance to be given in.connection with eohie ancient rites that the tribe is contemplating holding. She refuses tr . accept the offer, saying thai she if not fit to bring food to the Holy ' Spirit. She tells her father that no ' girl that has loved the way she ha? is worthy of such an honour. Her r rather is amazed. Fbr the first timr lie realises yjht-nm daughter is no+ i the kind of girji she' ongh't to be Wetona*e mother was a white woman, and In accordance with her dying wish Wetona has heen brought up as a white girl. She tells her father that Ber lover is a white man. ,) but will not tell his nam4. Quanna*- ) decides to find is and then kill him. •'•goes to Jonn HarQtS." SgStlfc tile reserva- \ tion .to beg .him to the life of r her lover. While thev are talking. 0 Quannah enters and thinks that HarU cfin is hid daughters lover. Hardin. * who reallv loves Wetopa but ha? never told her so, decideß to tnarrv ber in order to heT. Later it is learned that J&itlidnv . Wells is the man that wronged Wetona. Wetona has since • learned what kind of r> man Tony really is, and with her father's forgiveness and Hardin't love she is again made happy. A . strong supporting programme in-v-eludes the latest edition of Bairn- '' father's Cartoons, comedy and topical items. There will be a grand ■ matinee this afternoon at 2.30. it - » A V A.D.'S TRAVELSi On. Friday evening Miss Louis* Mack, a lady journalist who served abroad with the V.A.D. in the wartime, and also acted as a war correspondent, will lecture at, the Opera 0 House. y Miss Mack begins by describing; n the rusE of Belgian civilians into ir Anvfrem in the earlv days of the conn tiict. There; was, she said, an air of t > gaioty about the place contrasting r with the forecast one might havp made nf the scene. The place wa? !ikp Melbourne on a Cup day—for al' 1 withm believed t.Twt they were safe 11 The scene was different later, who* 1 ° all vr?3 a over. Miss Mack tfescrifW y at pome length the ravages and tha saorilosioup acts wrourtht by the Germans in Aerschot. Tbb Germanp y had lpft botf pb everywhere, bottle* it in unbelievpWe numbers. "If an* s of yon," said the "douM The stores of the atrocities committed in the beginning if thfe war, yon .• would not do so if yon could have ' seen the thousand# of empty bottles lvtng about An army that drank to that extent was capable of any aTrocity." ■ In Brussels Miss Mack met the jueroio Miss Cavell, and spent twft tmTOrgettable hours in the commnj of that lady and her nurses. "How amazing and how beautiful is that memory to-day," said Miss Mack. Thev said. 'We nursed the German? —did everything wo could for them. 1 The first remark I remember hearing Mifls Cavell make was: 'I don't believe these stories of the German alrociJTes —do you P' She did not believe them becftuse she had heen nursing the Germans, seeing them plnv the part of Jamb's. She could no? believe they could be brutes, hut she was to learn that. too. . . . Her face had that holy light which comes onlv in the eyeß and the face of one • whose inner thoughts are in communion with the Beautiful and thf good. She had a wit of her own, a merrv humour that made us all laugh." M'ss Mack related a little story of Miss Cavell. The nurses one night began to sing, in a praeticallv e*iptv ward, a verse of the British National Anthem. A lone German in a corner, had chimed in rt np lay there upon his back. Miss Cavell went over to him, and, pron- | ping him up with a pillow, observed: 1 "No, you don't; you don't sine •God Save the King' lying down." ,Tu¥ning to discuss the essence of war, Miss Mack observed that what our returned men were likely to lack most upon re-entering peace conditions was 'the** wonderful spirit of samarftdsrifl that they had found "ia the heart of the war."