MAORILAND PICTURES.
* ■ '' DADDY LONGiiSG!i.'' The pietunsaiion of .'vim Webster', famous story and play. "LV.ddy LongLegs." to bu portrayed at. the Otaki Theatre to-morrow niglu. should attract a great crowd, as this is tocognised as one of the prettiest li,hiis ever screened. Mary Pickford, "the. world's sweeth.eart," is right in' her element in the role of Judy Abbott. : ,nil this is said to be her sweetest role, The story is a beautiful one, aud the ujcture should appeal U; ell. The tulc of Judy Abbott is a renin ids able one. Judy Abbott did not have loving parents, kind friends and i: (den-ant home like other little girls. Site lived i„ tt big orphan asylum where things
moved by machinery, where children wore raised oil the "wholesale plan." where the head matron was n tyrant in skirts, where the trustees were nabbed and none too interested, and where the loving interest which children st need for their development and Imppness was completely absent. Judy was mothered by an ash can, christened by i, telephone directory, reared on the wholesale plan. etc. If you attend "Daddy Longlegs" you will spend a delightful evening.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 11 February 1920, Page 3
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