"CLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE."

Shannon News, 7 September 1926, Page 3

"CLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE."

VERSATILE, SCREEN) STAR. The'fame of Dorothy Gish, heroine erf a .hundred screen features, has addeti further Swasi fy> Sher name through her latest screen appearance. Miss Gish, for the most part, won popularity per medium of dramatic roles, and has won unstinted praise / for several memorable portrayals, the most recent being in "The Beautiful City." In that production she played Ihe slum girl in support of Richard Barthelmess. ' Yet -we are now to see; her in an entirely new atmosphere, and competent judges aver that the role "eTf the pirate's nagging wife in "Clothes Make the Pirate" discloses talent that will surprise her most ardent admirers. It is a comedy with a new twist and Miss Gish's work in association with Comedian Leon Errol will be eagerly looked forward to by local patrons. "Clothes Make the Pirate" has been listed for screening at the Maoriland ' Theatre on Wednesday. ' A particularly strong cast is in support and realism marks. a most entertaining comedy of class. j FORGED CHEQUE. ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY. Coming orginally from Cairns, Queensland, but lately of Ohau, Harry Walter Reid, aged 33, appeared at the Palmerston' Police Court to answer a charge of having drawn a cheque for £4 on the Bank of New Zealand, Levin, in the name of J. , Spiers, and uttering same to Arthur Charles Bradfield, of Palmerston North. :John Spiers, a farmer, of Levin in evidence stated that in April last he was. in the Palmerston North Hospital. At the time of admission he had a blank cheque in his pocket, but a few days before he and accused, who was also an inmate of the institution at the time, left the cheque was missing. The cheque produced made out to the order of "T. Christiansen," he identified. Arthur C. Bradfield, florist, stated that the cheque was tendered to him in payment for a palm, which cost 10s 6d. The accused said he would call for the plant later,, and when he did not do so witness became suspicious and telephoned to Mrs Spiers The fraud was later ascertained. Suspicion fell on the accused, stated Detective Holmes in evidence, and he was located three mpnths later at New Plymouth. When shown the cheque he admitted that the signature was his. He stated that the day before.he left the Palmerston North Hospital he found the cheque on the bathroom floor. Mr Spiers had been in the next bed in the same ward. Christiansen was also in the 'ward. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence.