AMUSEMENTS

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6603, 23 May 1925, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES How can I help my husband make more money ? Elinor Glyn answers this question perplexing so many women in her latest comedy “How to Educate a Wife,” to be screened at the Theatre Royal on Monday and Tuesday next. Or, rather, she shows how to do it, and how not. For one goes on the rocks in the experiment, while the other comes through with flying colours. Marie Prevost plays the part of Mabel Todd, the rather drab wife of an insurance agent whose financial slump shows no rise. Her husband is played by Monte Blue. The story opens with their predicament—unless there is more money they will lose their poor little home. Their successful friend, Billy Breese, an architect (played by Creighton Hale), gives a studio party and shows the shabby pair how his smart wife, impersonated by Betty Francisco, draws business his way by being “nice” to some rich bachelor wanting a new home for his house-parties. The slow-thinking insurance gets the idea and passes it on to his wife. How she works it out supplies the excitement.