AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19991, 7 November 1927, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

THE GWtD THEATRE The new programme which commenced a season of three days on Saturday at the Graauh Theatre, features Corinne Griffith in 4 ‘Three Hours’ 1 by May E/igirrtnn t author of “Secrets’’ teifs the following story. Madeline Durkin, wife of one of San Francisco’s wealtniest men, is divorced and living in a* most abject poverty. She decided to become a beggar on the streets and gains ynany small contributions. A young man James Findlay is about to give her a bill when Madeline snatches his purse and escapes. He traces her to a store where she arrays herself in the finest attire. But as she leaves the store Findlay takes her in a taxi to the police station —or at least pretends he will do so. But she begs for three hours. She must go somewhere at a certain time. He finally agrees and she tens her story. Findlay goes wuh her to the home of her former husband. There she finds the baby dead and in its coffin. She is almost driven mad, but in tne end finds consolation in the love of Findlay. Th® supports include George O’Hara in “Yours to Command,” a lively comedo drama which was well received, Al St. John in “Hoped In’’ is well up to his usual form and kept the audience in roars of laughter. T>w excellent gazettes complete a first class entertainmmit, which should attract good Ironses to-night and to-morrow evening. On Wednesday Buck Jones in “The War Horse” will be the attraction.