Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thursday 4 September 1913, page 10


HOYT'S PICTURE THEATRE.

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"THE REMITTANCE MAN."

When a young Englishman is known as a remittance man one begins to suspect Hut lim career may have been a bit shrub and so it turns out in the case of Roger Colville, who is only won back to in honourable life through the love of an Austi than girl, Maisie Dyer The story is told in a new film, The Remittance Man," which was shown privately at Hoyt's Picture Theatre yesterday the Lincoln Case 1 films Propy Ltd who are responsible for its production Colville is a bank clerk in Melbourne who has embezzled the bank's funds to tide him over financial difficulties no has just met Marble but love is not an avowed between them and she is just leaving Melbourne to return to her father Ned Dyer whom he has not seen for ten years Ned Dyer is a character in his district, and puzzles all his neighbours by his possession of plenty of cash which he spends loyalty at the hotel

in the little township of Tinamba Ifc does no work on his land but the secret is that he has discovered a nell alluvial pitch and is holding the gold

When Colville next meets Music it is in her home He has left Melbourne and it

rived at Tinamba where he rescues her father from some local i Italians who are determined to dence him He h was the old mansseeict is tempted by his ill luck and in the great scene of the film is discovered by his sweetheart Al usu str HILL, his fathers to casino He pleads for it lends lion and Maisie won by his pa sum its players and moved by the pinioning of her own heart believes she can win him back to a straight course But then troubles are not yet over Now Dyer in similar boat has revealed that he has IOOOOo/ of gold in his house the enteritis 1 lack Dick it the head of some simon hand n lives on the scene but Al visit escapes from the lions! 111011111- I nil silk s horse mail brings back assistants is the men are on the point of dell ii ling with their booty Maisie maines the man she loves and to centres as far down the golden treasure

the film is entirely, of Australian production and is 2 700ft in length It will be produced at Boy to Theatre on Monday

week.