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Show THEATRES "Trust Your Wife" With Katherine MacDonald Now at Orpheum Katherine MacDonald. the personification personi-fication of feminine lovellneas. has D6 ti making great strides of progress with her histrionic talent. Realization Realiza-tion of this fact Is forcibly brought home hy her latest starring vehicle 'Trust Vour Wife, which opened an engagement to a capacity house at the Orpheum theatre ISjM night. The vehicle Is unquestionably the best that has been -Ivcn the charming star, and it provides her with a wide range of opportunity to display her art as an j emotional and dramatic actress ' Trust Your Wlte'.' Is adapted from Harry S Sheldon's stage play. "Conscience "Con-science " In it Miss MacDonald gives Mplendid characterization of Margot Haftlng? the bride of a young western west-ern architect who goes to New York to put over a mone -making scheme on a "shoe string." The newlyveds put on a big "front" In the metropolis, metrop-olis, lning in a sumptuous ipartment which la really beyond their means. Dick endeavors to get the backing of Slater T. Holcomb, financier and roue. Holcomb. who is attracted by the architect's beautiful young wife, promises prom-ises to advance money, but later, when he laarns of their true financial condition, con-dition, ho tells Dick that he must put up $25,000 of his own In the scheme. Dick Is ijlscburaged, and a letter from his bank calling In a note doesn't help matters any. Margot determines to secretly islt Holcomb to induce him to continue with the contract. She finds him half-Intoxicated on his yacht at night Margot's subtle appeal ap-peal finally arouses the Holcomb s conscience. She leaves the cabin, but before Hhe can disembark the jacht slips Uowly down the river. Dick, who has been Informed of the proceedings by another woman who had entered Holcomb's life, arrives nt the pier Just in time to see the vessel gliding away. A very tense and dramatic situation follows Margot's retui n home but the arrival of the conscience-stricken Holcomb wltn explanations und barking bark-ing for Dick s scheme smooths out the t.ngle most happily. "Call a Cop." a hilarious Mack Sen-nett Sen-nett comedy, nnd a Selznlck News Weekly completes the program, which will continue today and Tuesday. |