McLEAN'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1924, Page 1

McLEAN'S PICTURES.

BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY BENEFIT TO-MORIIOW. "Xothing Else Matters,” a Welsh Pearson production teaturing Petty Balfour, Moyna Maogill, and Hugh Wright is the top liner lor the Mc[.ean Benefit to the Beautifying Society to-morrow night. Jimmy Daw is a music hall comedian who marries Margery Boss, niece of his landlady. .Mark Post*, » dramatist, wishes to place Jimmy in

.some serious work and desert vaudeville, ami offers Lo give him a part in one of his own plays, hut the comedian obsessed with the idea that Rose loved Margery, refuses all his offers. A son is horn to the young couple. Imt about the same time Jimmy suffers a severe failure in popularity culminating in a complete hiss ol engagements, A long spell of ill-fortune follows and when Boss secures a further engagement for Jimmy with his old songs iit a hall which witnessed his earlier triumph, a decided “bird” ts the result. Jimmy also hears spiteful T'hispers about his wife and Boss, and gh-es away and rushes from the theatre. At home they are distracted at the loss of the hoy, who they featmay have fallen into the canal. Jimmy comes home, and still crazed with suspicion, strikes his wife down and then wanders into the forest. They find the boy and Margery’s instinct tells her to seel; for Jimmy «t their old trysting-place in the forest. In his arms she learns that ‘‘Xothing Else .Matters” but "love.”

The supports include a topical gazette, a Bruce scenic, "In Banana [.and,” with a railway joining through the groves, and a Christy comedy “All Jazzed Fp.” As the benefit is for a very popular local institution there should he ti bumper house. Prices as usual.