ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4511, 5 January 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CENTRAL THEATRE PICTURES. TONIGHT. “CHARGE IT.” Ho.w a fascinating, aristocratic society' leader abandoned her social position and took to dish-washing in I a Comoron restaurant is told in the 1 latest Clara Kimball Young photoplay “Charge It,” by Sada Cowan. Of ( course -this strange behaviour will seem a mystery to many, but when the powerful circumstances that confronted this wealthy social queen are understood ifew will blame Julia Law- — rence for deserting the brilliance and y glory of her life for the sordid routine , of a restaurant employee. When the story is all over the spectator will admire, rather than censure, the courage of this millionaire’s wife in leaving the luxury' of her life and earning her own living by the toil of her hands. “Charge It” is a moral for thos n who believe money brings everything. Miss Young as Julia shows that a girl can be happier as a d’sh-washer than as the wife of the wealthiAit man alive. In this realistic picture Miss Young assumes four different’roles, and the remarkable point is the effectiveness with which she enacts every part. As the brilliant, glorious social leader, surrounded by all the extravagance of wealth. Miss Young’s carriage is convincing. As the flippant lover of another man her gaiety and reckless demeanour are equally realistic. Again, as the humble restaurant help in a 'cheap cabaret Miss Young seems to have been born for the part. Finally, as the repentant, modest wife of a striving husband she seems to be the ideal , housewife -to the manner born. “THE COWPUNCHER.” " . Owing to its non-arrival on Wednesday “The Cowpuncher” will be screened to-night. CAPITOL PICTURES. NGATEA AND NETHERTOX.

-THE MAN WHOf’ To-night at Ngatea and o.n Monday night in the Netherton Hall will be •screened “The Man Who.” featuring Bent Lytell at Bedford Mills, who, wouudqd in the Argonne, meets Helen Jessop when her aristocratic father, St,. John Jessop, was giving a “do something for the poor boys” party at In’s New York home. Beddy, overcome •with music and ice-cream, fainted, and Helen gave .him first aid treat- j ment so prettily that Beddy fell-in love. But Helen was not for a bank clerk; she wanted a man who did. things, and Beddy tried to do his best to be “The Man Who.” Faultlesslj r drasscd for an afternoon call, but - without any shoes, he went for a stroll pn Fifth Avenue, resolving to be the" Man Who Broke the Shoo Trust.” Crowds followed him and the police arrested him for indecent exposure. “I can’.t afford to buy shoes,” Beddy explained to the Judge. “I’m going barefooted until the price of shoes comes down. Profiteering has to stop I” He was congratulated for performing a public service, and the public responded with quick enthusiasm to his scheme. All over the country people resolved to follow his example. Whole schools voted to go barefooted. On .the east side of New York people were mobbed for wearing shoes. Beddy was a hero to his followers, a sensation to the daily press, which ran length} 7 accounts of his exploits in entering the most fashion-] able places barefooted, and an object 'of scorn to Helen Jessop, who wrote him because of his notoriety never to try and see her again. But to Mary Turner, who had a s,tudio in the apartment house where Beddy lived, the shoeless wonder was a loveable big boy who needed somepne to take care of him. Barefooted herself, Mary went with him protectively on his Fifth Avenue expeditions- A common cause threw them into each other’s arms, and they found being in each - other’s arms so" pleasant that they decided .to get married, only. . . “I can’s marry you. Beddy,” she explained, “until you know the kind of girl I am ; perhaps you will never speak to me again when you know. Shut your pretty blue eyes and try to love me in spite of it.” Beddy braced him.-' self for the dreaded avowal.. “Papa is; - the Shoe Trust,” she whispered.