EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17202, 3 January 1918, Page 3

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

The picturised version of a popular novel, " Creeping Tides," by Kate Jordan, vyis shown at Everybody's Theatro for tho first time yesterday, and attracted largo attendances. Tho picture, which is ehown under tho moro telling title of "The Tides of Fate," is a splendid production. The American stage beauty, Alexandra Carlisle, who has quite recently gono over 'to tho kinema, is seen as the heroine. The production is another of tho great ■ World drama films, which liavo become so popular with Dunedin picture patrons. The story tells how a young, beautiful, and romantic girl becomes infatuated with an adventurer, whom she marries in face of a wall of opposition from her relatives, and rumours which she hears as to his not being the Prince Charming which she thinks him to be. Hor first " big chunk" of trouble comes when at the beginning of her married life she is arrested along with her husband for counterfeiting. The pair aro convicted together and sent 'to prison. She gets over this inconvenience by escaping through tho help of a newly-acquired friend, and suoceeds in reaching America. She then hears how her husband has been killed in a mine accident. She plans in earnest to live down her rfcord. The further unfolding of tho story brings on tho hero —a fine stamp of man —who, having been dismissed from the mounted police of Western America for a momentary failure of nerve, retrieves his namo by a daring exploit in 'tho Philippines. How tho fortunes of the girl and tho man drift together and aro united is admirably ehown in tho later scenes. Remarkable pictures of tho Philippine Islands are among the attractions that tho production offers. A Mack Sennet-Keystone comedy, entitled "Beauty Parlour Secrets," is one of tho supports, and is prpvocativo of roars of laughter.