GRAND AND PLAZA THEATRES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18295, 12 July 1921, Page 7

GRAND AND PLAZA THEATRES

A double feature programme will be presented at the Grand and Plaza Theatres today. The first production, a Metro special, is entitled “Ine Greater Claim,” and features .Miss Alice Lake. This pitcuro is adapted from the Izoia Forrester-. Mann Page original story, with a plot that brims with surprises, telling of Mary Smith, a Follies beauty, who wejs ‘‘Chuck’’ Gerard, a wealtny youth. The latter’s father has “Chuck” kidnapped during the honeymoon and sent to sea. Mary angrily takes to cabaret life Then, forced by poverty and Iho necessity of supporting tier child, she fulls in with, undesirables who blackmail her father-in-law. With her sudden wave of mother-love and ifjconeiliatioii comes the climax of a wondeiful picture. The supporting east, includes Jack Dougherty, Edward Cecil. Do Witt Jennings, Florence Gilbert, and Lenore Lynnrd. Credit for splendid direction is due Wesley Higgles; and no less praise merited by Sidney Ulln;un for the art settings. Bay.nrd Veiller (chief of productions) supervised personally. The other, a Ilepworth production, is entitled “The City of Beautiful Nonsense,” from the novel by E. Temple Thurston, and features Henry Edwards and Miss Chrissio White.