AMUSEMENTS
OPERA 1101’SE. ‘‘Don't Marry for Money.'' will head the all.new programme to be screened at the Opera House to.night. Some folks believe that wealth is an op.-a sesame to every gift and- pleasure this old world has to offer, and who say. “There’s nothing wrong with, me that money can’t remedy.'' The authors of “Don’t Marry For Money." (Hope Loring and Louis Duryea Lighten), have taken for the principal protagonist of their story a smalltown girl, Marion Whitney (Rubye De Remer). brought up by her relative, (a nagging, narrow-minded old uncle), who believes the be.all and end-all of a girl’s life is to marry wealth, with the little matter of love and choice not figuring in his scheme. She runs nwav from this mercenary old miser and lands in New York, where she soon finds her uncle’s ideas are the prevailing ideal of nearly every one she meets. Disguised and disheartened, she marries the richest of the mnnv admirers attracted by her beauty ind her innocence, Peter Smith (House Peters). Hating herself for having sold
hciself, and hating him for havin bought, she finds herself the unhappier "f women. Then she becomes eas prey io a paii l of society schemers, an conic their accomplice and their tool. SATURDAY. ‘ ‘ The Fighting Adventurer.’’ a Jew el feature will be screened at th matinee on Saturday and again on Sa turday night. “THE HUNCHBACK OU XOTRE DAME.” OPERA HOUSE—MONDAY NF.XT. Many interesting facts about the rc mantie history of the Cathc dral of Notre Dame were brought t light, during the exhaustive researc] work conducted as a prelude to tin filming of Victor Hugo’s classic: “Tin Hunchback of Notre Dame,” which i booked for a limited engagement a the Opera House, starting next Alon day at Hie matinee at 2.30 p.m. Notri Dame stands on the site of th' oldcs basilica of flip capital, coustruefed be fore the Cathedral of S.ainte Ltionm Martyr, long considered to be tin most ancient. Excavations under th(
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Grey River Argus, 19 June 1925, Page 3
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