"SCANDAL."

Otaki Mail, 16 July 1923, Page 2

"SCANDAL."

!rl » A BRIGHT AND PIQUANT OOMED7. > -.on attraction chiuq to Otaki, but theft) ~J will ic- another „,, Monday nest, ''•'l when Harry 1. Cohen (by rtrrtingenicii; ■' with ■}. <:. Williamson) will present "s Otaki theatregoers the daring and d.- ''" lie,'"-.- thro.- act comedy (scandal. Th< '■" piece is from ihe of Cosmo Uaiail--10 ton, itself a sufficient guarantee of t" iexcell'.-nt proauenou, which i« tur'co -tr.:;;;tb.-n.-d by Miw Dor;- Duane. ■-> actre-::- ol exceptional and outstanding , ability in svhoiu the emotioaa) at i i dramatic of a brilliasl : piece of writing hav<; an oxceptionaKy i versatile and coiitpfeteiit interpreUr, , i "Scandal" deals with the '.hriiiing tJi mantie episode in the life ot the ii»pi;£ Beatri:; Vanderdyke Dori Duane , ' the pampered niece of a tculti-millioi- •• aire, The latent fc.c-n.se of adventure ■- t her asserts itself, and, desiring to "*;* ii j the world as other «ee'it," eh* ' '. -.tudio. sii&de purely tor hnk'i *i 'j adventujks, reaches her guardian.!, "i 5 j surprise licatrix in the act ot carryit? -j on ■■) taiid flirtation. Seized by •,:!, 01 ■ I her dangerous "inspirations," frhe ■'•'■' ■ j ctar«.> -he is secretly married io a R :i ' I friend ot the family who !:"" ' in the sacle Ss?. Tra.'yii [ill. ) Eris Harrison/.. the friend, is caiies in r • and. "to be z. sport," adcuts ti* I "truth of the lie." Inwardly fario-y j -A-ith h< : resolves r 0 aaka j Seatri.--: tire the part. A stubborn bi*tie ensue--, in which *;-.eh endoaVatfo to suppress the growing love that intrudes to eoiaplieate au already psiturbing sitiatiou. It is ie the gTiejrdicg of the ieeret and the breaking iovre of Beatrix-'« resolution not to lire th» part of the wife that the mora noted .scenes have their genesis. Both principals r;-s, tot great emotional height*; particularly in -.h-.- fi-mous bedroois wt-ne, and ul.-.o in the clkLt:':, i r Q~ I --.hicb -hey emerge the viotiias of Cap:*-