ON THE SCREEN.
" Betty Takes a Hand." Absolutely original is the story told in Olive Thomas's last Triangle play, " Betty Takes a Hand." She is the daughter of a broken down miner whose rich sister-in-law sends for the girl to go to San Francisco. The aunt is a social climber, and after being rather appalled by Betty's prettiness, goes off on a yachting cruise with her own daughter with a view to landing a millionaire husband. Betty gets even by turning the aunt's fashionable and exclusive home into a board-ing-house, and the resulting complications are fast and furious. During their ,unravelling she rescues a multi-millionaire from a plight due to a motor accident, and takes in quite unknowingly his idle son, as a guest in the boarding-house. Charles Gunn portrays the hero, and is splendid, Vhile George Hernandez as the multi-millionaire does one of his dry and intensely funny characterisations. The programme includes a 2.500 feet film, Auckland from the Skies and a Gaumont graphic.
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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 96, 5 September 1918, Page 2
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165ON THE SCREEN. Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 96, 5 September 1918, Page 2
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