ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14239, 20 October 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAIN MENTS.

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Catherine Calvert has the lead m “Marriage” at tlie Paramount tonight, Eileen’s husband, a supposedly prosperous broker, neglects her and she prepares to elope with Ballantyne, a novelist. Her husband informs her he is bankrupt, his eyes are afflicted, and can only be cured by an expensive operation. Conscience-stricken, she dismisses Ballantyne. Dolly, her friend, comes to borrow money. Eileen coni esses her financial condition and, urged by Dolly, they fit up an apartment and make money b.v cheating at e.ni s. Ballantyne finds them and threatens exposure, unless Eileen will accept him as a lover. Eileen gives Ballantyne the key to her apartment, not to yield to him, but to reason with him. Her husband unexpectedly returns from Europe, where a successful operation has been performed on his- eyes, and entering Eileen’s apartment, finds Ballantyne, who is awaiting her return, and thinking himself an intruder he leaves. Eileen, knowing that Ballantyne will earrv out his threats, accuses herself of being a client at a dinner party in the presence of the guests, lie husband, who has stolen to the door of the room to shoot Ballantyne, hears Eileen's confession, and a reconciliation is affected. A comedy, a Gazette, and “The Whaling Industry” completes the programme. COSY THEATRE. William S. Hart is a screen actor, who, above all others, has shown his supremacy in quick moving dramas of the “red-blooded” type, and as an outlaw of the American West. In “Breed of Men,” a big Artcraft attraction, in which he will be seen at the Cosy Theatre to-day, he is seen as a cowboy, gun-man, outlaw, and passionate lover in a drama full of excitement and action. The plot deals with a la'ndsnark who endeavours to fleece the simple, if exuberant, cowboys of the ranch districts of America, and the summary punishment which is executed bv Hart and his comrades on the rapacious landshark, is felt to be well deserved. A romance, which is started when the girl in the case shoots Hart in. me shoulder, is interwoven witli the main theme, giving it added interest. “The Great Gamble” is continued in an interesting chapter. A comedy and a Gazette are among the supports..