MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 10 December 1919, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

/'MICKEY." At the Otaki Theatre to-night Leo D. Chateau's International Attractions will release for the first time Muck I Bennett's first special super-feature, ! "Mickey," with Mabel Normand heading on "all-star cast. The story is as j follows:—Mickey had lost her father and mother when she was a bit of a tehild in a small mining town, and her father's partner, Joe Meadows, had taken it upon himself to bring her up, her only relations being an aunt and cousins living on Long Island. Joe's > housekeeper, Minnie, the Indian j woman, is the only mother Mickey has ( ever known, and the girl dressing in I men's cast-off clothes, grows up to bo i a harem-scarem little scamp, always in j trouble, but loved by all. Mrs Drake, j Mickey's aunt, is striving to maintain j a millionaire establishment with but •little or no funds, her only real asset j being her daughter Elsie, whom she is trying to marry off to a man with money. She has Herbert Tkornhill in , mind, and the engagement is almost closed when the man is called "West. In the West he meets Mickey and falls in love with her, despite the evident distrust of Joe Meadows, who decides that it is time that Mickey had some women folks to look after her, and so writes to her aunt, telling her that Mickey owns a., gold mine. This is enough for Mrs Drake, and the girl is ; urged to come to Long Island at ence. Joe takes here there. Just as Joo leaves the Drake home he tells Mrs j Drake that Mickey's mine hasn't paid I for years, so the aunt puts little Mickey to work as a servant. Herbert returns, and becomes engaged to Elsie when he thinks he has lost Mickey. Reggie Drake makes advances to Mickey, but is repulsed. At a reception given in honour of Herbert, Mickey dresses up.in one of Elsie's gowns and attends the affair, but is taken to her room, where the intoxicated Keggie has been locked in. In escaping from him she climbs down the porch and meets Herbert. Herbert's lawyer cooks up a scheme whereby Elsie released him from the engagement. Meanwhile Keggie has induced Herbert to bet on a horse and tries to double cross him. Mickey overhears the plans and acts as the jockey, thereby frustrating the crooked plot, A few" days later she goes riding with Keggie and he traps her in a summerbouse. Hero Mickey fights until she is rescued by Herbert after he has ; a severe rough and tumble with Eeggie. From then on things go more smoothly for Mickey and Herbert, and we at last ?see them leaving on their honeymoon.