EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1917, Page 6

EVERYBODY'S.

MARY iPICKFORD'S LATEST' SUCCESS, "POOR LITTLE I'LT'PJ.VA.'Bewitchlngly attractive, with a charm peculiarly her own, Mary Pickford delighted a crowded house at Everybody's last evening in her latest seven-reel success, "Poor Little Peppina." The story is divided into three parts—a prologue, Uie play itself, and an epilogue. The opaniug scenes show the incident that own-red fifteen yea>s prior to the time Mi;s Piekford makes her appearance as Pcppir.a. A wealth;. American family by t : ia name "of Torrens reside at their villa. The family comprises Sir. and Mrs. Torrens and tljeir daughter, Lola, a child of about two years of age. The Torrens' butler* an Italian, and a member of the Mafia, .ikes to sample the nine cellar of his empioysr,- with the result that he is discivered aud reported to the master by another servant. ' The butler is discharged, and swears vengeance. He lies in wait (or the servant who rii» irtcc'l him, and killed him, and is arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to lif% imprisonment. With the aid of the Mafia, he makes his escape from' gnol, ar.:l .'n revenge kidnaps the child of the Torrens family, which he places in the cure of relatives while he makes his escape to America. Mary is uroiight up as "Peppina," the child of an ItaHan peasant, but at the age of 17 rebels at her >ife and surroundings, and, disguised as a boy, becomes a ito-.vav.-ay on a iiner bound for) America She is discovered aiul befriended by a young American soltcffcor during '.lie voyage.. Her arrival and struggle for life in New York is graphical!)' portrayed, and he-re she again falls into the' hands of the rascal who kidnapped her, noiv tin proprietor of o low saloon and 'boss" of a gang of counterfeiters. Tiring finally of abuse, which is heaped upon her, she makes her escape, and becomes a messt: gcr "boy," One day, on delivering a message, she is recognised by a shopkeeper on whom she has passrfcj bogus money while acting as the toed of the gang, and is arrested. Brought before the police, she relates her story, and at the? district attorney's ofiice Carroll recognises the "boy" that he befriended on the liner. A raid on the saloon brings the butler and his accomplice into the net of the police, and on their confession "Peppina"s'- true identity is', revealed, and she. is restored to her parents. Three years later, during tho coin's.! of the epilogue, Carroll propj'es, and is accepted, and thus end the adventures of "Poor Little Peppina," who is no longer poor, and who is as charmingly pretty as only "Our Mary" can be, .

The picture will be repeated again to-night and to-morrow. Inleiulin'i natrons would be wise 10 Book seais at Collier's.