OTAKI THEATRE.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. i “LOVE, HONOUR, AND OBEY.” “Love. Honour, and Obey,” a screen adaption by Eugene Walter of Charles Neville Buck’s successful novel, is to be the star at the theatre on Wednesday night. The all tar east will include Claire Whitney, Wikla Bennett, Kenneth Harlan. Henry Harmon, E. J. Ratclift’e and George Cowl. “Love. Honour and Obey” tells the slor.v of a New England girl who marries a wealthy church deacon to please her fa I her, when she really loves a New York novelist, whose liberal views have created a scandal in her Puritanical community, she has broken with him completely, however, through the news that he is named a co-respondent in a sensational divorce. But he is a co-re-spondent in name only. When she learn; through the divorce that he is innocent and that she has been tricked into marriage, she bolts the door ol hei bridal chamber against her husband. This situation lays the foundation for a dramatic conflict on the theme of whether a woman who has sworn to “Jove, honor and obey” her husband :hould bolt the door against him or whether she should seek her happiness where -he feels there is true love. Miss Bennett, a popular Broadway star making her first appearance in pictures, will be seen as the heroine, and Miss Whitney, long a motion picture favorite. who recently starried in “Mothers of Men.” will be the divorcee. The production was made under the direction of Leander de Cordova; Arthur Martinelli was cameraman, and M. P. Stauleup art director. It is an S-L production released by Metro.
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Otaki Mail, 25 September 1922, Page 3
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268OTAKI THEATRE. Otaki Mail, 25 September 1922, Page 3
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