MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 26 March 1919, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

J SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE."

'To-morrow night" at the Otaki'Picture Theatre the" Aircraft" Picturo-Co.-I will .present . George M. ..Cohan m '' Seven Keys i o Baldpate, \' the synop-, sis of which is as follows:— George •Washington Magee, a novelist, makes I a .wager with the owner of Baldpate

Inn -that -be can. write a story in iweiitv-four hours/ Seeking..seclusion, Magee borrows the key. to Baldpate, a summer hotel now locked up for the winter, and with his typewriter retires to an upper room of the deserted, hos-. telrv to .write his story. There enters the "hotel office one John Blana, an employee of a street-railway magnate, who places '200.000 dollars In' the hotel sa.fe—a bribe to be called for later by the Mayor of Beuton. Magee surprises Bland, "who draws a pistol, but a moment later the novelist tricks him - lE d locks him in a room. Foiihwittn However. Magee is' confronted by i a | ' third-intruder, ■ Mary Norton,, a. news.- . paper reporter on the trail of the bnb- : crv affair. Magee falls in love wuh : Mary and complications crowd, still iiiore closely upon one ,another,;? |eelj. Uln-all. seven. persons, including ■ peter, i a strange old come to:" lonely." "'Baldpate thaY'nlght 'As caressed -by 1 the author, the hotel, seems, to-have as manv keys as a. piano. All-the keys i are in tie hands'of particularly inter- ! esting people who come on mysterious ! missions, even -murder, but.the.key..,to- ! f he-Situation-is held by Magee. and he docs not relinquish it until the very, last reel, and not tilbtke very last lap of 1 that. To tell more would be to spoil '.he mystery of the story-