AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 15 November 1919, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

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"FRIEND HUSBAND."

The sterling scrien of pictures that will be presented at the Paramount to-night include the latest Goldwyn feature "Friend Husband." Dorothy Dean (Madge Kennedy) doesn't like the idea of marrying and settling down to domestic life. Her aunt's will, however, stipulates that she take a husband before she receives her share of the fortune. So she hits upon Don Morton (Rockliffe Fellowes), the law clerk in the office of Judge Roan (George Bunny), too family adviser. And so they are married. And Don falls in love with Dorothy and insists upon accompanying her upon her "honeymoon." She ejects him from her room, but undaunted, he kidnaps her and carries her to a distant island the next day. Even this proximity appears to no effect on Dorothy, so Don leaves the island. In his absenco four burglars appear. Dorothy thinks they have been sent by Don and makes it known that she is quite familiar with the whole frame-up. Don, however, has seen the men set for the island, and, following, he arrives just in time to save Dorothy from them. He battles with all four and emerges victorious but wounded. The posse arrives to take the remains of the gunmen away, and Dorothy is last seen in Don's arms. A number of supporting films include topical items, a comedy "By Orange Aid" and the "Arrival of the H.M.S. New Zealand" at Wellington, New Zealand.

"COSY" THEATRE. JEWEL AND PARAMOUNT FEATURES. The week-ond change of programme at the Cosy to-night will include two very fine dramatic productions. One of these will be "Believe Me, Zautippe," in which Wallace BeM has the major role. "The police are a bunch of overfed cats. They couldn't even catch a cold." That was George' MacFarland's irritated remark after his rooms in New York were robbed. And he of* fered to back up his opinion with a bet of 20,000 dollars that he could commit a crime, and elude tho police for a year. His accept the wager, and arrange to have , MacFarland forge his name to a cheque. Ho does so, disappears, and the.game is on. The friends notify the police, offer a reward for MacFarland's arrest, scatter pictures of him broadcast', menthe colour of his ]iair, give other details, and make a special note that MacFarland's favourite expression ?s "Believe Me Xantippc." MacFarland spends cloven months in retirement in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. While hunting one day he meets Dolly, the pretty daughter of Sheriff Kamman, who has just Wiled a deer and who asks him if he is hungry. When he replies "Believe me, Xftntippe, I am," she remembers the police circulars sent to her father, and makes him her prisoner with the aid of her rifle. MacFarland tells her the story of his wager, and wires to his two friends in tho East that he has been captured. Word is received, that both friends had "been lost at fiea, but a few days later they turn up to claim their wages. It „then develops that Dolly, who had made the capture, was not an officer of the law according to the terms of the wager" agreed upon, and that MacFarland technically had won his wager. They are forced to admit that the joke is on fchem, and MacFarland takes Dolly to his heart for ever. The Jewel Film Corporation will present their second big success "The Co-respondent," in which pretty Elaine Hammerstein will appear in the stellar part. There will be a big matinee programme shown at 2.30 this afternoon.