MARY PICKFORD IN 'HEARTS ADRIFT'

Evening Star, Issue 16196, 18 August 1916, Page 6

MARY PICKFORD IN 'HEARTS ADRIFT'

The management of the Octagon have secured another stellar attraction for Monday evening next, which is said to show the world's sweetheart, Mary Pickforcl, at her best. The picture is entitled ' Hearts Adrift,' of which a contemporary writes: "In this 'romance of tangled lives' it is always Little Mary that holds our interest. There arc others in the oast, as there mvwt be, but the sympathy is with Nina, the half-wild maid. In her abbreviated garb of skins she bounds from rock to rock villi tho agility of the chamois, and along the beach" she runs with the light-footed speed of a deer. Tho hardships of her five years' battle for existence on the island have converted her into a half-ravage. With a rod the spears fish. Yet she is always intensely feminine. ' with the heart and hopes of "a. woman." There is tho love of companionship as exemplified in. her friendship with Hie. wolf and later in her ccy demeanor toward the man so strangely sent into her life. A child of perhaps a dozen years is cast upon an island. Five years later she finds on the beach thefigure of a man, east up by the waves. lie had escaped from a burning yacht. Nina brings water and .fruit to tho nearly dead man, but keeps away from him. As he revives he discovers a footprint, then he catches a glimpse of the girl, but he is not able to find her. There is a. pursuit there* are. several, in fact—when he dees locate Nina; but it is not until die falls exhausted with terror at the sight of a volcano in eruption that he reaches her side." A love story ending in a tragedy follows. 'Hearts Adrift* will be screened during the. whole of next week, and special orches" tral selections have been arranged, together T V mV. vi ° lin SoH by Mr J - A -' Wallace, L.T.0.L., for this excellent picture.