AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.
EVERYBODY'S.
METRO AND BARKER FEATURES
A gra#d double star programme will be shown at Everybody s to-day, when the new set of films-will introduce j Barkers-all-British masterpiece, "East Lynne," a wonderful picturisation ol the English version of Mrs Henry Wood's novel. Another feature will »c the five-act play "His Father b Son.". A liarum scarum college lad's lather bets him six thousand dollars that he cannot hold a sixty-dollar a month job for thirty days. He sets out in his racing car, with his valet, to seek work. A motor-car accident brings abut a meeting with a beautiful girl. Anther accident gets him into this girl's home as a butler, though he is really a detective guarding a priceless gem owned by her father. A lamous crook, posing ~s a member of the British nobility, nas i is e^e on the girl and the gem. The ccllo~o lad baulks his game, falls in love with the girl, and then—does he win her and 'the bet, too? • Those are the strongest points in this strong play that wins smiles and stirs the heart. These two strong feature plays are well supported by other topical and. humorous items.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17077, 3 September 1917, Page 6
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199AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17077, 3 September 1917, Page 6
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