EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1917, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S.

"THE MEN SHE MARRIED." A sumptuously mounted Brady-World "feature" (photo-drama, "The Men She Married," constitutes the leading "draw" of the now programme screened at the Everybody's Theatre on Saturdayl The principal role, that of Beatrice Raymond, a wealthy young society woman, is entrusted to Miss Gail Kane, whose natur- ] til grace and beauty lend a distinctive ehaim to the part. The plot is based upon the nefarious operations of one Ralph Senjple, a handsome young "crook," who, although married, schemes to rob Beatrice by winning Iter heart, marrying her and then to abscond with her money and jewels. To carry out his plans Semple poses as a wealthy city man and passes his wife off as his sister They take a mansion adjoining "Beat l rice's at the seaside, and one day Semple, while entertaining Beatrice and her friends on his yacht proposes to her and is accepted. The remaining ■ stage of Semple's scheme is then carried into effect, and he disappears "With her money and jewels on the afternoon that their nuptials had ibeen celebrated. He leaves a letter confessing his villainy, and I warning her that as he was already married, any attemnt to prosecute him would I only react on her. Posing as a young widow Beatrice has many suitors aa time goes on, and one day she is delighted to receive a missive from Central America purporting to be from a lawyer announcing Sempic'a death. Beatrice now accepts the had of a wealthy widower. Jerry Trainor, whom she loves devotedly. Trainor has a daughter, Edith, who is not out of hor teens, and she is jealous of her step-mother, Beatrice. Prom out of the past, quite unexpectedly, appears Semple, and ho loses no time in attempting to blackmail Beatrice. The taliappy woman is almost demented, and her health begins to fail. The husband grows suspicious, but 'by a happy sequence of circumstances the villain ia .run to earth and Beatrice's happiness returns. The play is well constructed, and artistically tiie cast does it justice. The auxiliary items are "The Two O'Olock Train" (Keyston farce-omedy), and "The Topical Budget " The programme will be repeated to-night for the last time.