OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 14 June 1922, Page 2

OTAKI THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT. I '‘THE GIRL IN THE TAXI." John Stewart, Sent - ., dubs his son I Bunin a mollycoddle, and refuses him lan increased allowance. But the youth j pawns his father's best clothes, and in order to avoid meeting his parent he | hides in a waiting taxicab. Suddenly lie finds himself being whirled away . with a strange but beautiful girl sit- | ting beside him. The Stewart, kouse- ! hold is the rendezvous of those who . have nothing to do. To wit: there | comes Bertie’s uncle, Percy Peters, j with a chionic cough: and a Mrs ' Smith, wife of a perfumery manufacturer. The latter receives a. medal j from the esteemed Mr Stewart for i building a hospital for .sick animals. It is at the impromptu medal bestowI al that Bertie recognises in Mrs Smith 1 the girl with whom he was suddenly I whisked off in the taxi. He thereupon ' makes au engagement to meet her at ! the Cafe do Paix. Considerable conj sternation ensues, when Mr Stewart j and a Ur. Paul also visit the Cafe de Paix, as does Percy Peters. But the j situation becomes acute for Bertie j when Major Smith arrives to keep an appointment with tko Governor’s staff, i The waiter, Alexis, wise in the ways of | married women mcetiug young bachei lors, serves the personages present. Much to Bertie’s surprise, his father is more than pleased to learn that his son iis not a mollycoddle! And just when congratulations and parental bliss are about to be heaped upon Bertie’s shoulders, Major Smith discovers his wife. In the melee that ensues a policeman, also discovers that his own wife is one of the party. Augmenting this sudden catastrophe, the men at the Stewart household discover next morning that Alexis, the waiter, is the new butler. And when they threaten to oust him he threatens to expose them all. They therefore decide to reinstate him. Trouble mounts sky-high when Mrs Smith arrives to warn Bertie that her suspicious husband will soon come to present a bottle of perfume to Mrs Stewart. And while that trouble rages, there arrives a policeman who had pursued. Bertie all night thinking him to bo the entertainer of his wife.