Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-24
EDUCATIONAL IS
THE OFFERING At
LIBERTY THEATER
Unusual Treat is Provided BY
Management for ''Movie"
Patrons of Honolulu

Again the management of Ye Lib
Ierty theater has provided an unusual
treat for movie" theatergoers of Ho-
nolulu. In this instance il is also
again a big spectacular educational
show, depicting scene that few per-
sons on the globe have the fortune or
rather the misfortune to witness. 1t
Is that of the wrecking and sinking of
big ocean liner after collision with
an iceberg. The title of the play is
Lost in Mid Ocean" and a powerful
story is told in addition to the wreck
feature and a following fire scene.
1t was shown yesterday for the first
time and will continue for week.
Ones blood almos: is CONCEALED as
he watches an ocean greyhound rae
ing through the dark neadon for a big
mountain of. ice. The picture alter
mates to gay scenes in the salons of
the ship and to the closer approach
to disaster.
Then comes the crash: the doomed
ship slides away from the engine of
destruction and wallows helplessly in
the trough of the big waves; wireless
operators are seen Ia their little cub
byholes exchanging frantic messages;
ships are seen to change their courses
and rush to the rescue; passengers
on the doomed ship are seen rushing
about the decks whioa are awash. The
final plunge of the steamer to the bot.
tom of the ocean is plainly shown. The
rescue ships arrive and survivors who
have escaped in small boats are saved.
The heroine of the story was on board
the ship. She had been separated
from her husband in Japan through the
Vaccinations Of a wealthy Japanese
who had become infatuated with her.
She escapes from her captors and
takes a steamer Immediately follow
ing the one in which her husband had
sailed He had believed until far out
at sea that she was aboard, and did
not learn otherwise :.atil he received
wireless telling hiG his bride was
following. The boat on which she was a
passenger was the boat which sank.
de was on one of the ships which
went to the rescue. He could not find
his wife and believed she had perish.
ed. In a big eastern city he decided
to leave his old haunts and became a
reciuse. In the meantime his wife had
escaped drowning, having dragged her.
self on to a piece of wreckage when
the ship went down, and "a hours later
was picked up By Japanese fishermen.
She went to the big American city.
but could not find her husband. Pen
Diless, she takes small apartments.
Fire breaks out and she risks her life
to save picture painted by her hus-
band The husband reads of the Incl.
dent in newspaper aad visits the hos
pital where the woman has been taken.
There he finds the wife whom he has
believed was dead. The rescue of the
bride from the Japanese and the fire
scenes are only little behind the wreck
for spectacularity.
In addition to this big film there is
another, Officer i'm" portraying
some of the trials and tribulations OF
New York policemen. There are gam.
bling house raids, a desperate fight on
the, roof of a skyscraper and in the
final scene the destruction Of west,
ern mining town by explosion and fire.
This is attended by series of heroics
performed by "Officer JIM. who has
been led West in search of his former
wife and with whom he becomes re-
united.