EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16873, 9 December 1916, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Thc.ro is a very striking play comprised in tho new programme at Everybody's Theatre called " Jiody find Soul, i'hc heroine, Clairo Mart:n, is ati'iic-ted with lapses in memory that bring about extraordinary complications in tier life, and cause 110 end of perplexity to her lovers and friends. While on a summer holiday she is set upon by a robber, who puts an end to the girl's resistance _by throwing her down a steep hillside, with the result that when she recovers from a swoon she has lost her reason and wanders to a log hut which is used by a millionaire as a holiday resort. Claire's friends set out it> search of her, and her lover, calling at the hut lor a drink of water, finds h:s love, and tho joy of reunion restores the girl's reason. The rusticating Broughton has learned to love tho distraught refugee, because she resembled a former love of his, i isd follows the girl back to civilisation for (he purpose of claiming her. Ho invites Clairo to visit him on his houseboat at night for the purpose of forcing an explanation from her By photographs ho shows the closeness of their former intimacy—facts quite obliterated from heT memory—and tries to force tho girl to yield to liits wishes. In self-protection Clairo madly and faulty stabs him, and is takf.n from the houseboat insensible by her real lover, who f.ns again come to the rescue. Broughton's death is put down to iuicide. and Claire, by careful nursing, wakes again to her real personality. The part of the heroine is featured by M;ss Florence Roekwcll, who h at present playing as a member of tho Williamson Company in Australia. A Charlie Chaplin comedy, and other items, fill tho complement of a good entertainment. These will be repeated to-day.