AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 June 1924, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

EMPIRE TO-NIGHT “BELL BOY 13” Disinherited by his uncle because he ihas tried to elope with Kitty Clyde, an actress, and thrown down hv Kitty because his uncle has refused consent to their marriage, Harry Elrod finds himself stranded in a big hotel with a broken heart and fifteen cents in his pocket. He takes the advice of the first bell boy, who says that his job with thirty a month; tips and a free place to oat and sleep’* suits him, and decides to try bell hopping. Within half an hour he succeeds in tangling the affairs ot everyone around him. When he pages “Mr Haskell,” whom ho finds m the dining room with Kitty, ho promptly preempts that worthy s seat and is dragged out of the dining room by t.ie wrathful head waiter. His uncle arrives on the scene and Harry once more gets in bad bv getting his uncle first into Kitty’s room and then into the room of another strange woman. Hear ing sounds of endearment coming out ot Kittv’s room, Harry tries to peep into tho keyhole, is discovered by his undo, •who also succumbs to curiosity as soon as “Bell Boy 13” is out of the way and who in turn is discovered by a sour faced spinster. Uncle is so humiliated that he buys the hotel for the pleasure of firing his mphew, whereupon Harry organises a strike of all the hotel em- j ployees with such effect that his uncle j agrees to let him marry Kitty. liany calls off the strike and terminates Ms career as a bell hop by blocking the I traffic in the hotel lobby as he raptur- , ously embraces Kitty. Mack Sennett comedy, cartoon, scenic and Budget. Usual prices. Ring 186.