EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17292, 18 April 1918, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

Tho management of Everybody's Theatre yesterday added ono more good programme to the already long list. " Alimony," as the now chief pieoo is called, is a decided improvement on very much that is seen at picture theatres. It is a good example of what is now produced on tho screen. In the story is involved family complications which start oft wtih u rrvin, ftlroridy 1x13.1*" ned, having some very slight ncfju;i it]t-inop with a woman not his wife. The position is magnified out of true propoprt.iona and a divorce is obtained by Bernice Flint, believing tha 1 the man she has had a mild flirtation with will marry her. Turner lias, however, no such intention, and never had, arr* Bernice has no ground for tho bolief tha: guides her in her actions. It has hero to bo noted that, to use the American stvta Turner " has a million book of him." Bernice then conspires with one Stone to bring about Turner's ruin, and the scheme prospers tip to s certain point. Tint lilcn all good storioa. virtue triumphs, and vice receives its just deserts. Turner meets Mar jorio_ Lansing. whose fresh and honest nature wms him, and he asks her to marry him, which_ sho, not unwillingly, agrees to do. iiomic and F-tone next" attempt to create - cleavage between these two, and go perilously near attain in p- their purple. Again a beneficent, provideneo interposes and catastrophe is not onlv avnrtrd. bnt. rendered pr rfcifallv impnfwvblp. Tho story, however, gives bnt a faint id<vi of the real worth of the picture. "Alimony." which in 1H class, j.q altogether exeept?onal. Tt is nlmoit, needless to say that the production jk on the very best linen. Th.-'t applim to nearly all pictures nowadays. The sunports to Alimony." which is a verv loni- pietiire. arc th* 9th en'sodr. of " Weill" We " a Budget, and a Patho Gazette on tho ll:story of tho War."