MAORILAND PICTURES.
I “THE APPEARANCE OP EVXL.”' Tho above will be shown on Thursday at Otaki. The synopsis is as foli lows: —Mrs Maida Brown lives with her littlo boy at Rayport, a secluded country town. A regular visitor to her home is Louis Lctehworth, a young man who is in the business of manufacturing airplanes. His lawyer, Boyce, a gentleman with a sense of humour as well as a sense of the law, has tendered him a cheque for a hundred thousand dollars from am “unknown backer.” This backer is in reality Mrs Brown. The many week-ends which Louis spends at Maida’s home cause first her servants and then the whole town to talk. The Purity Leaguo gots busy, and eventually Maida is obliged to move away, although her relations with I Louis have been anything but improper. In the city Harold Brown, the j brother of Maida’s dead husband, seeks to learn the truth regarding his sister-in-law’s relationship with Louis. One night he sees Maida emerge from Louis’ apartment. As a consequence she is summoned to his lawyer’s office the nest day. Her immense fortune which her husband had left her reverts lo Harold, provided Maida marries again, according to the terms of the will. Harold believes that Maida is married to Louis. This she denies. Ho then starts suit to obtain custody of the child because of Maida’s conduct. With this Maida makes a clean broast of everything and tells Brown and the lawyer that she was married to Louis in Belgium shortly after the outbreak of war. She cannot produce a marriage certificate, and they do not believe her. Uuyce solves the problem. Louis, being handy with his pencil, sketches the face of the witness who attended the marriage. Roycc then enlists the services of an actor —a real make-up artist —and there is proof of the marriage. Louis’ enterprise has been successful. and so he is able to rctnrn tho hundred thousand to Maida’s fortune, which, in tarn, is given to the Browns with the rest of the money.
The fifth episode of “The Silent Mystery” will also be filmed.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 24 March 1920, Page 3
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