HAYWARD'S PICTURES,

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 16 December 1912, Page 4

HAYWARD'S PICTURES,

This evening, at the Lyceum, another star programme -will be screened, when a great war drama entitled "The Fall of Blacfchawk" will be screen t ?d. The picture is full of sensation, and concerns the treaty made in the year fB3O with the Fox and Sacs Indian tribes, whose conflicts with the white settlers had become serious, whereoy the Indians relinquished their claim to all lands east of the Mississippi, leaving; them free to the white settlers. Chief .Blackhawk signs this treaty against his own settlers, and when the rush of the white Settlers to the ceded land seteiit there are continual conflicts between Blackhawk's braves land $he whites.News of the trouble reaches Lincoln's home, and. ;he raises a volunteer company which he marches off to Oapt W bcotts camp, who.has taken the field against Blackhawk. There are-many vivid sdenes showing the violent but ineffectual attempt® of the "Indians tocarry off Fort'Crawford. The defenders smen the gate and make a despeiateand successful sortie. The' Indians an© routed.: and Blackhawk is made captive "The Fall of Blackhawk" sho'uM draw packed houses to'this popular picturehouse for the next three nights that it m screened. Anothfer exclusive Vitagraph, "The Light of St. Bernard," a story of the sea, will .be sure to become .popular. The other pictures includePatfce's Gazette, Gaumont's Graphic, comfedy and scenic films.. Seats may he 3?3 er a ;ißs2 H-LJOneS''Orl)y'I)h0ne *