EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1917, Page 2

EVERYBODY'S.

A "bumper' house aiul a great programme was the "order of tho night" at tlio above pal.itial picture ltonse last e v c.niug. Tlio star film of Hie nev/ sei ies wsi a strong; five-part feature from tlie pen cl Edith Bernard Delano ami produced by the Famous Players': Company with Hazel Dawn in the lead, "lie photoplay presents a situation in which a bin- financier finds himself staring into mm. Welton offers him assistance on'the condition that his daughter, ./cniiifer, marries him. To this bargain Jennifer refuses to accede. She meets James Murray, proprietor of a lumber tract, and as uncouth and wild as the eorntry itself, with whom she, however, falls in love It is after their marriage that Welton discovers a.bogus note issued by Jennifer's father before his doparture for tin East, and, planning to use this as a means of compelling Jenl'ifer to marry him, lie sets out for the West. When ho learns of her marriage, in frpitefulness he tc-lls Murray that she married him only for his money, so influencing the unthinking husband that iie leaves Jennifer, It is then that the drama reaches its most intense climax. Welton, who has had an earlier affair of a bad nature with Agnes, Murray'*, sister, is begged by her to protect her by marriage, and upon his refusal she Kill? him. Jennifer, with her great love for her husband, accepts the guilt of the crime in order to prevent Murray from learning of his sister's dishonorBole position. This heroic act of sacrifice only makes Murray more embittered against her—until, through an overpowering series of tjense dramatic situations, he at last learns of the heroic sac rificc. of his wife, and seeks her out, with a greater love and regard. This splendid film, with other fine items in support will In: repeated again to-night Seats may be reserved at Collier's.