AT THE OCTAGON

Evening Star, Issue 17706, 6 July 1921, Page 3

AT THE OCTAGON

The Octagon’s current programmers proving very successful. The attraction is Lieutenant Ormer Locklear in ‘ The Skywayman.’ The etory concerns Captain Craig, the most daring of the flyers attached to the Lafayette Escadrille, who, when he returns home, is unable to recognise any of his friends, as a result of a hazardous feat in the air. He attempts to commit suicide, but is prevented by Virginia- Ames, a Red Cross nurse. Craig learns that a band of thieves has robbed her of enormously valuable jewels. Craig undertakes to recover the jewels, and flies above the train; that the thieves are aboard, lowering himself down to the top of a Pullman car. He wrests the precious stones from the thieves, and, by means of a rone, climbs back into the plane, which, in the meantime, has been handled by Virginia. Later the gang regains the jewels, and in an encounter with them Crate is knocked unconscious. When he awakens he finds familiar faces about him. Gone is his inability to recall' events of the past. Then he learns that the adventures he has recently undergone repreeented the efforts of specialists to restore him to mental health. Virginia Ames is non© other than the Red Cross nurse he loved in Prance. The “Russian noblemen” are his old friends. Craig and Virginia are happily united. The supports -include Edith Roberts in a five-reel drama b>£ the South Seas.