EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17218, 8 December 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)

EVERYBODY’S THEATRE.

Roy Barnes, as .Bill Took, a salesman who gets what he goes after, features in “ The Go-Getter.” a Cosmopolitan production coming to Everybody’s next week. The nicture i.® founded on Peter B. Kyiv’s famous novef bv the same mime, and the screen version of it is fullv equal to and perhaps surpasses the book. feck, a returned soldier, belongs to that type, of men v ha never knows when hit is down, and although hampered by a limp, the result ot war injuries, keeps on hammering awav until he secures a job as Salesman with the Ricks Lumber Company. He is started oft on selling the worst line of lumber known to the trade, but manages to execute an order, but to a rival company, and for this he is discharged. Refusing to bo turned out of his, job. he returns to Cappy's office with a batch of orders, which makes that astute gentleman decide he has mode a mistake, and henceforth Teck belongs to the firm. He also lays claim to Mary Skinner,' the manager’s (laughter, and within four l ours is an engaged man. Cappy decides to test the ex-soldier before giving him a responsible position, and arranges with Skinner that Bill be commissioned to buv what is as the Blue vase. The name of the storekeeper is often changed, and the wrong address given, but despite these obstacles. Bill manages to find the place, ■ onlv to find that a burglar has lifted the vase. An exciting chase ensues, hut Bill eventually obtains possession, but having to deliver the vase to Cappy before he gees on a train journey, ho is forced to hire an aeroplane to reach his destination in time. How he succeeds in his undertaking, and incidentally wins Mary and a comfortable position,* make a fitting climax to the picture. Seena Owen, as Mary Skinner, William Norris as Gappy Ricks, and Tow Lewis as Skinner, who always gets left, fill their respective roles with great characterisation and skill, A strong supporting programme includes “ Newly Married.” a Bourke comedy, a Burton Holmes Travalogue, and a Topical Gazette.