AMUSEMENTS
LYRIC PICTURES, PORT CHALMERS. The manager of the Lyric Pictures, Port Chalmers, announces that to-morrow night he will present to his patrons a new Fox photo-play, entitled ' High Finance.' George Walsh, a great actor in film comedy-drama, gets a real opportunity in this play to display his prowesß and funmaking ability. Mr Walsh plays the role of Proston Piatt, a young spendthrift, who, because he is threatened with being disinherited, hires out as a valet with a scientist about to go west to explore a deserted mine. On the trip he meets Patricia West (Doris Pawn), a young girl, who, to assert woman's rights, became private secretary with the same scientist. Preston falls in love with Patricia. To show his father he has some business ability, he "salts "the abandoned copper mine, starts a run on the stock, and sells it to his father for 100,000 dollars. When his father arrives and sees he has been buncoed, Preston leaves to make Patricia his bride, having netted a nice fortune from the mine deal. Dad relents, and welcomes his financier son back home. A capital supporting programme will be presented.
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Evening Star, Issue 16676, 7 March 1918, Page 6
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190AMUSEMENTS Evening Star, Issue 16676, 7 March 1918, Page 6
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