EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1917, Page 8

EVERYBODY'S.

'•THE CHEAT." The first-class programmes invariably screened at "Everybody's'' have rapidly and thoroughly established the popularity or this latest and best of New Plymouth's picture theatres. Among the pionounced successes must be counted the Lasky feature, "The Cheat," which was. the star item at last night's entertainment. A wife's extravagance, a husband's temporary financial stress, the woman's yielding to the temptation of using patriotic funds wherewith to gamble on the Stock Exchange, in the hope of raising money to pay her hills; a wealthy Japanese villain, who, when the bubble is burst, gets the wife in his power by means of a loan with its pound of flesh, furnish ample details for sensational and emotional acting, but the after events are even more thrilling, resulting in the Japanese being shot by the woman, whose husband arrives in time to take her crime upon himself, but the villain does not die, and at the trial the wife clears her husband most dramatically. The acting throughout is superb, and the large audience were delighted with this masterpiece of pieturemotion, and equally pleased "it!: the oiipporting programme, which, will be repeated to-night and to-morrow night.'