MCLEAN’S PICTURES.
RED .CROSS BENEFIT.—FRIDAY.
To-morrow (Friday) evening, Mr 11. .McLean is giving a benefit entertainment in aid of the Red Cross “Our Day” appeal fund. For the special occasion a very fine programme will he screened-, headed by the Metro Pictures live act melo-drama “What will People say . 6 ”, in which Madame Petrova the exquisite emotional actress takes the leading role*. The story deals with a problem of a very young woman who is used to every luxury, confronted with the question of cboqsing between the man of her heart and 'Hie man who can give her the luxuries to which, she Jins been accustomed. Persis Cabot, daughter of a multi-millionaire, meets a young officer,’ Harvey Forbes, coming from the Phillippines and they fall desperately in love. Owing to her father’s financial reverses, it is impossible for her to marry Harvey Forbes. Slip contracts a marriage with Willie Enslee, whose immense fortune makes it possible for her to. re-instate her father and give her all the luxuries she has lieen used to. The marriage of course is a failure. How the lovers meet-, and. the husband discovers them and accuses his wife of infidelity,'forms a scene of great dramatic power. The husband later stabs his wife, and ultimately she obtains a divorce and marries Forbes. 'The second episode of the serial. “Peg o’ the Ring,” is n very unusual and attractive one.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1917, Page 1
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233MCLEAN’S PICTURES. Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1917, Page 1
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