"COSY" THEATRE.

Wairarapa Age, 20 November 1919, Page 6

"COSY" THEATRE.

NORMA TALMADGE. The name of Norma Talmadge is always the sign for good business, and tho curent change at tho Cosy which includes Norma's latest succes is no exception. This film, which is in seven acts, is entitled : The Hurt; of Wetona " nnd g'res Mss Talmadge plenty of scope for her clever powers. Wetona, the daughter of Quannah, chief of a a tribe of tho Comaches, is chosen to act as vestal virgin at a corn dance to bo given in connection with some ancient ritos that the trihle is oontemplatng folding. She refuses to accept the offer, saying that she is not fit to bring food to tho Holy Spirit. She tells her father that no girl that has loved the way she has is worthy of such an honour. Her father is amazed. For the first time ho realises that his daughter is not the / kind of girl she ought to bo. Wetona's mother was a white woman, and in accordance with her dying wish Wetoryi has been brought ■ up as a White girl. She tells her 1 father that her lover is a white man frt will not 101 l his tviw Ofanran , decides to find out who he is and ■ Then kill him. Wetona goes to i John Hardin, agent of the reserva- ■ tkm, to beg him to save the life of ; her lover. While they arc talking i Quannah enters and thinks that Har?nn is his aaughter's lover. Hardin, wno relly loves Wetona but has never told her so, decides to marry herein order to save her. Later It is learned that Anthony Wells is the man.that' wronged Wetona. Wetona has since learned what, kind of a . man Tony really is, and with her - father's forgiveness and Uardin'p • love she ifPagain made happy. A splendid series of films are shown in • support. '

A V.A.D.'S TRAVELS: 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 Hon so. Miss Mack begins by describing the rush of Belgian civilians into AnTfteni in the earlv days of the conflict. There was, she said, an air of gaioty about the place contrasting with the forecast one might havp made of the soeije. The. plooe waf> like Melbourne on a Cup day—for all withm believed that they were safe The sceno was different later, when all, was over. Miss Mack described at some length the ravages find tha sacrilegious acts wrought by the Germans in Aerschot. The German? had left bottles everywhere, bottlefl in unbelfcvablo numbers. "If any of you," snul the lecturer, "doubt The storfe? of the atrocities commitTed in the beginning if the war, you would not do bo if you could havp seen the thousand® of bottles lying about An army that drank to that extent was capable of any J aTroeitv." ' In Brussels Miss Mack met thf neroi> Miss Cavell, and spent two irnrorgettablo hours in the comnanj of that lady and her nurses. <r How amazing and how beautiful is that memory to-day," said Miss Mack. They said, 'We nursed the German? —■did everything wo could for them.' The first remark I remember hearing Mias Cavell make was: 'T don't believe these stories of the German alrocifies —do you?'. She did not believe them because she had been nursihg the Germans, seeing them plav the part of Jambs. She could nof believe they could be brutes, but she was to learn that, too . . . Her face had that holy light which comes only in the eyea and the face of one whose inner thoughts "are in communion with the Beautiful and the good. She had a wit of her own, a merry humour that made us ah laugh.'' Miss Mack related a little story of Miss Cavell. The nurses one night began to sing, in a practically empty ward, a verse of the British National Anthem. A lone German in a corner had chimed m as no lay there upon his back. Miss Cavell went over to him, and, propping him up with a pillow, observed': "No, you don't; you don't sing •God Save the King' lying down." Tufning 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 samaraderie that they had found u in the heart of the war."