OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 31 March 1922, Page 3

OTAKI THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMME. To-night's picture, "Ever Sines Eve," is a very tine one, and should" attract a crowd. The. story is interesting throughout, the acting is splendid, and the climax one that will please all. "LESSONS IN LOVE." TO-MORROW NIGHT. Leila Calthorpe is left as sole heiress to her grandfather's estate, and the family lawyer, Hanover Priestley, anxious to get her off his hands, schemes with his friend. Henry Winkley to marry her to Winkley's nephew, John "Warren, who is living out West. They wire him accordingly that they have picked a wife for him. but receive the answer that he will do his own picking. They then send John a false report of Winkley's death so as to get him to come. He arrives, accompanied by his sister Ruth. Leila is indignant because of his first curt telegram and decides to put something over on him. She dresses as a maid, calls heaself Perkins, and informs the unsuspecting John that Miss Calthorpe is out of town for a few days. When she sees that he is falling in love with her, she brings out a photograph of her maiden auut. and tells him that she is Miss Calthorpe. He is first startled and then infuriated, as his uncle's will states that in order to come into his inheritance, he must marry Miss Calthorpe. Leila is invited to a ball and dodsre- out of the house unseen by John, "in returning, however, she climbs through the window, assisted by her cousin. Robert, is seen by Ruth and heard by John. They enter Robert's room, but in the meantime she had dressed herself in men's clothes, and when John open's the closet door, steps out with a gun in her hand. A lively scene follows in which they detect her identity, or think they do. A lire breaks out, and John rescues someone whom he thinks is Perkins, but who turns out to be Aunt Agatha. He rushes back, gets Leila and while half-unconscious she hears him tell the others that he is going to marry Perkins. She soon tells him who she realty is. and agrees to marry him.