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Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 9

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OCTAGON AND KING- EDWAPJ3.

A special children's programme was shown at the Gascon, and King Edward picture hou-..- this afternoon, a.nd this exev.'.'...i t!.-> much talkcd-of 'By Bight of p„, ,;,! be la this piece t_lt., . !id poouhr XcrnutTalmadgs ],\ , M t 111! gar £, a sweet but bV-. butu-ifiy. ""' Iho story, in hi;. , ! a l'Avl"-- mtiriage which is litia. .: urf'-rnud int-j a happy union. ft in oi.e 01 (lenrune appeal, and" throughout it hj.. i Dtvii ><) <•'. ell a--ted and directed tii:.t it villi tin- really "worth vth.io"' film pnxliidi'n.-. ll.e plot is not iicv t'i he-:'.)! or the .-t;.y : but it->gains and ho>i~ the attention, it tois of Margot jlu,'hf.-. v.ho ji,arrh<] Chad'.vi. k Hines for lierwent, a uc-'er-do-v.e!! She obtains money from her husband to finance Dick, h-j< *ih-...;>t' her <•. :.'i']<-t v.iih him is above leproarh. However, »the busy toii2'i<\= ol society ajv ft t..e"„•»>-.i> anally reaches (.hud wick. He insists tr.at M;-.rcot ct-p-e her friendship with Dick, and later noon finding her having Did:'? he I'pbraids her and will not h.-tcn to her He th..-. : j jo--, i-s to sail for Franco. However, they iiu .t aboard his yacht, and Margot tcih him of b-r .-i nee re love for him and her contempt for ]J:ck. who had merely " u.v.d '" her to obtain money. And the two I>e.jin a new "honeymoon.'' There are some, really fino soenes showing a storm at sea, and in general the direction ***-kzecllent aL-J the production has been richly mounted. ' jjv ltight oi PiircJiasn ' should prova a popular attraction, not only from the Intrinsic interest of the play, bat because of the* charming personality and clever ing of Norma Talanadgß..