Town Hall Pictures

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1742, 20 April 1916, Page 4

Town Hall Pictures

The following is a synopsis of the drama, "The End of the Umbrella/’ to be screened in the Town Hall on Good Friday evening:— The Aqueduct Construction Company had been having a good deal of trouble with certain anarchistic elements, w T ho, anxious to seize any cause of discontent to further the bloody revolution they hoped for, opposed the building of the great pipe which would carry fresh water to the crowded people of the great city. Finally after the company had been worried half to death by anonymous threats, a tremendous explo- . sion killed a couple of dozen workmen and wrecked the main section of the great work. Dolly Desmond, in the city office of the newspaper, heard of the catastrophe and begged the editor to allow her to investigate it. He consented, and Dolly set out. As she wander-

ed about the wrecked aqueduct, she came across a curious umbrella handle in among several pieces of a shattered bomb. She obtained a position as cashier in the dining room of the little hotel near the works. She had the han->* die placed on a new umbrella, put it in the stand and settler herself to watch. It w'asn’t an easy matter to devote her entire attention to the stand as she thought at first, for Grant, a young engineer at the works, fell madly in love with her. At last when she was on the point of giving up, a shifty-eyed individual picked up the umbrella, started to go out with it and then apparently remembering, looked at it, put it down, and looked frightened. Dolly recognised him as "Nutty Jim,” one of the lodgers in the hotel. That evening, Dolly went to his room to investigate. She had Just unearthed several, bombs when Nutty Jim came in and sprang at her. She fired at him, but missed. A bomb was knocked off the table and ex-

ploded. Nutty Jim was killed, and Dolly severely injured. The boarders,, terrified by the explosion, found Dolly more dead than alive, but the plucky girl’s first request was to be carried to the telephone. She told her story to the editor and collapsed. We leave her at the hospital with the anxious Grant at her side, delightfully reading her “scoop” in “The Comet,”