"THE RECKLESS AGE."

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 125, 2 May 1925, Page 11

"THE RECKLESS AGE."

Starts at the Cosy de Luxe to-night. The hero is an insurance agent, sent out to America to safeguard a policy which will reimburse an English lor«»ling engaged to marry a wealthy little American girl if tho wedding does not come oif through no fault of his own. It is his duty not only to see that his lordship docs not die in any casual and unexpected way, but also, if possible, to see that the wedding eventuates. It is rather a drawback to his duty when he meets and loves tho girl himself without knowing who she is. They are thrown together in a taxi which they share in escape from a train wreck. Then the English lord takes a hand in the game, and complicates matters by stealing a necklace he has given the girl, and matters are further addled by the appearance of an impostor who states that he is the lord. The girl has by this time got very fond ot the insurance agent, and the latter docs some very nara thinking. He hasn't much time to think about her for a while, as there is quite enough to do without that. He kidnaps tho feigned aristocrat, and clapo him in durance viles on a friend's yacht but then an actress turns up who tries to blackmail the real lord, and all is tangled again. The detectives get wind of the story, jind it is not long before further trouble is sighted in the fact that there is a mis tunc in the succession to the title, and the man with the insurance policy will not be a lord at ail. Tho herculean elforis ivh|ch the insurance agent j>uts up to knarry him to the girl evea thougu he will never have the title would be funny if ho did not love the girl him self. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

“TRIUMPH.” “Triumph” Ceil B, de Mille’s Paramount production, starting to-night ui the Municipal Theatre. Leatnce Jo} and Bod La Rocque are featured in the principal roles. It is the story of two fellows and a girl. Victor Vareom, a new de Milk “ hnd, ” -plays the other man. He and h< Rocque are half brothers, both in lovo with Miss Joy, as Anna Land, forewoman of their father's can works, She has ambitions to become a concert sing er. A trick will cuts le Rocque, as King Garnet, oil without a cent, and Varcum, playing William Silver, comes into the fortune. Anna makes a great hit with her singing. Sliver proposes and is accepted. King pockets his pride and starts in to work at his own factory beginning from the bottom and gradually working himself up to manager. This pleases Anna who now realises that it is Kin<' whom she really loves. “HAPPINESS.” Starting at Cosy de Luxe to-night, ( starring Dainty Laurettc Taylor. i The story tells of a New York shop assistant who is poor and shabbily dressed. She is the sole support of a widowed mother, and strives against overwhelming odds to rise above her environment. She delivers a hat to a wealthy Mrs Pole, whose curiosity iJ aroused by tho cheerfulness of the girl-1 the is invited to stay for dinner, and so* charms her hostess that she is invited to stay indefinitely. A new world opens up before the amazed little Jenny, but she prefers the love of one of her own class to that of one of the “smart set.” The life of idle luxury soon palls, and she eventually leaves her gilded cage to start business as a dressmaker an her own account. Learning the lesson of life, from Jenny, Mrs Pole is taken out of her own empty imitations of pleasure, and is filled again with the joy of living. Y'ears later the principals in the little drama meet again just prior to Jenny's marriage. While they are dining there is a knock at the door, and a timid little creature, a duplication el the shabby little Jenny of years before, enters the room, and asks for employment. The party recognise that the world has been good to them, and set about to make the discouraged girl Lappy.