ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1933, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

INGLEWOOD TALKIES; “MERELY MARY ANN." Mary Ann (Janet Gaynor), a penniless orphan, is a servant in Mrs. Leadbatter’s (Beryl Mercer’s) ' London boarding house. . One of the lodgers is John Lonsdale(Charles Farrell)‘‘a I talented young composer, who prefers remaining poor to writing popular music. Lonsdale cannot ■pay for a piano which he has ordered; The truckman is about to take the instrument away when Mary Ann ■ comes to • the rescue with a few shillings that represent all her savings. She and Lonsdale become fast friends. Therefore, when his poverty, forces him to accept an offer of £2OO to popularise one of his songs, and he goes to a cottage' on the Devonshire coast to work, he takes her with him. They live blissfully together for a few weeks like brother and, sister, till word comes that oil. has been, struck on the property of Mary Ann’s deceased parents in America. She timidly offers him the money . and ■ her hand, but he refuses in order to protect her from her own.generosity. He turns his heartbreak into music and writes an opera' about their romance. Years later, at its premiere, he meets Mary Ann. She greets him coldly. Depressed, he goes to thenold cottage. He. is playing her favourite song,, when the door opens, and she stands smiling on the threshold. See the conclusion of this stirring drama at the Inglewood Talkies tp-morrow night.