EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1917, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S.

j "THE CHEAT." I ir.ATURTXO FANNTE WARD ANiy j SESSUE HAYAKAWA

One of the most thrilling and fascinating photoplays ever produced is "The Ciieat," a Laskv picture (hat commences a_ three-night season at Everybody's toright. The story is complicated and exciting. It deals 'with high American life aijd the wild infatuation of a Japanese for a stockbroker's wife. Losses on Wall street give an opportunity to the Japanese, a man of wealth, to put the stockbrokers wife in his power. In a Wild scene in which he brands her on the shoulder she shoots the Japanese, but not fatally. At this point the husband arrives. The police enter, and the husband insists on taking the blame. The Japanese is exultant, and the stockbroker is tried before the- Court. The unscrupulous .Japanese in.-:sts on pressing the charge against the luckless husband. Appeals from the wik are of no avail. The Japanese is obdurate. On the day of the trial, when the husband declares his guilt, and relates the circumstances of his "crime" his statements are borne out by the callous Japanese. But wifely love can beav it no longer, and when her husband is diclarcd guilty, the wife rushes to the witness stand, .bares her branded shouider, and, in a rgriat scene denounces the cheat. The case is then dismissed. Amongst tin. ladies this picture has proved the greatest attraction ever screened in Australasia.