PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14127, 27 May 1920, Page 2

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

“WOMAN AND WIFE.” Alice Brady’s second Select star series feature is “Woman and Wife, at - anted from file over-popular- dauc Eyre,' ’by Charlotte Bronte. Wlien the story opens Jane Eyre is living with her rich relatives," the Heeds, but the petulance of the Beed Boy causes her to be sent to an institution conducted by the heartless Brocklehurst. Jane s sweetness effects some influence over even him, however, and it is on his recommendation that she secures the position of governess to little Adeel, the daughter of Edward Bochester. He had parted from his wife, "Valerie, when she became insane, and her mother had told him she wos dead. Accordingly, when he falls in love with Jane, of whom little Adele has also become very fond, he proposes to her and is accented. The announcement of their engagement * seen by Valerie’s brother Baoul; he brings her to Bodiester’s apartment and blackmails him out of some money. Bochester, at his wits’ end, hides the demented girl, but she breaks loose on the scheduled day of the wedding and the truth ot her identity is disclosed. Jane is ready to leave, but is persuaded to stay by her lover . In the meantime Valerie has escaped to the water, where she is drowned. Fate has finally been kind to the long-suffering Jane Eyre, and and all is now clear for her marriage to Bochester. A further chapter of “Wolves of Kultur” is most exciting. A splendid tliree-reeler L-Ko comedy will be seen in “What a Life.”