AN EVENING WITH HELEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2938, 25 November 1916, Page 11

AN EVENING WITH HELEN

— »" SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES. / • Every''Friday ..'evening, after. this "ghost' l walks, I sit down and consider how I shall spend ,tbe surplus on Saturday night. Sometimes, if my creditors are quiet, the said surplus fills me with a glow of anticipation. At other times,-it is email, horribly small, in .wlucliicase the Boulevard Lambton catches but a fleeting glance of : me. And there have been times, alas I when there was no surplus at all: These were thei'times, when. 1 went to bed-at nine o'clock in a bad temper. It is not always May. Last night the financial outlook was so promising that I rang up Helen..- , "Hullol" said she. • "It's only me," said 'I. "I thought so," said she. "You always ring up when I'm in the middle of something." "And what were you in the middle of this time?". i "Oh, ' nothing much," she said, woman-like. "Perhaps I'd better ring off and let you finish it?" "Oh, no, go on, what is it?" . "What about a little evening to-inor-row niglit?" ' "Where?" • "Well;" said I, "it all depends on how you feel. .If your liver—beg parI don—if you are'feeling a bit glum we can'm to' Everybody's Theatre and see the Triangle comedian, Chas.. Muiray, in "Tho Judge," followed! by tho popular actor, Henry Ainley, in Pinero's celebrated drama, "Sweet Lavdbder." I remember seoing "Sweet Lavender" staged years ago, and I'm anxious to see what the. improvement is in film form.; ; _ "Or," I continued, "hero, is another bait—we. might go along to tho King's Theatre, , and see th'eir big drama 'The Payment.'. I'd rather like to sco Bessie Barriscalo in something intensely dramatic, and I hear that she, has a great chance for fine work in this play. You Temember William Desmond, of course?". "Ho who camo out here whon Katherino Grey played in tho "Lion and the Mouso,' and 'The Third Degree'? Yes —I liked hiin." "Well, be is leading man in 'The Payment.' So we will go there—eh ?" "M-yos," said Helen, "I think we will. What else is there?" "Then there's 'Incorrigible Dultane' at the Empress Theatre. Barrymoro, tho Famous Players' comedian, you know, has a big part in that. I read the synopsis of the piece tho other day, and, in fact, I'm keen to see it. There is a, great fight scono in it." "Suppose," said Helen, "wo agree lo go somewhere to-morrow,- and go to whichever ono wo feel liko after tea?" ' . "Good idea,' 1 said I. "And what wo can't see on Saturday wo can do during tho week —eh!" "All sorenc." "Saturday liight, , then ?" "Saturday night it is—good-bye!" And I hung up tho receiver well pleased with tho prospcct.—(Published by arrangomont.)