OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 20 February 1922, Page 2

OTAKI THEATRE.

‘LIFE’S A FUNNY PROPOSITION. 1 TO-NIGHT. A young bachelor, Jimmie Pendleton, lights shy of the women folks until he meets the “one” girl and then he falls hard. Mary Austin is the girl and her blonde beauty sure did hit Jimmie “between the eyes.” But long before Jimmy and Man- decide to live in u

cottage for two, a series of events come into the life of Jimmie that prove that “Life's a Funny Proposition.” It all conies about after a friend of

Jimmie’s, who is secretary and treasurer of the Belgian Babies’ War Relief, leaves one'of his charges ou Jimmie’s doorstep-and .Timmy is obliged to earn for the youngster, because his friend, after carrying out the joke, meets with an automobile accident and is confined to a hospital for several days. Jimmie is so embarrassed that he is afraid to tell of Hie new member in his household. Jimmie’s uncle, who had gathered together nearly all the money that “grew” in Kansabruska, has seloctod a country girl for Jimmie’s “partner for life,” but, well it wouldn’t do to tell how this funny proposition is soiled, but we will say that Jimmie and Mary are united to live happily forover after. “SKIRTS.” WEDNESDAY NIGHT. In the. Fox six reel comedy spectacle “Skirts,” which will be shown, on Wednesday night, there are several of tbe most, thrilling and daring and difficult feats that there were ever shown iu motion pictures. Some of these stunts are as follows:—Rushing at break neck speed ou a runaway horse, a girl is rescued by a man iu a racing automobile who snatches her to safety. The automobile, speeding along with rescued and rescuer, is halted- only after lbe front wheels arc hanging over the edge of a precipice. From the top of a train running at fifty miles an hour a girl, who has climbed to the roof of a car to escape pursuers, is saved by an airship which sweeps down and lifts her into tho air. This feat is performed by a man hanging by his toes from the body of the plane. * A runaway train dashing through a burning forest rushes upon a blazing bridge which crashes beneath its weight, plunging the train into u stream. A circus in Kansas is struck by a tornado. T. b and cages and paraphernalia are car-

ried away by the storm. An automobile is hurled through the air and landed in a tree. When a flood swecpi through a house it lifts a bathtub containing a woman and sweeps it done the main staircase, through the great hall and cut into the street.