PLAZA THEATRE
A strikirigly fine drama of powerful and sustained interest i 9 the principal attraction contained in the new series of pictures screened yesterday at the Plaza Theatre, i, 6 of this film is "Tho Threads of I'ate. iiio story concerns the life history of a girl called Dorothea and Viola Dana invests the role of the heroine with a great deal of charm and also at times of pathos. After the wife of Jim Gregory, a Pennsylvania coal miner, has eloped with an Italian adventurer named Giovanni, the father, unable to care for his little daughter, loaves her on a doorstep, one is adopted' by a man and his wife, who give her the name of Dorothea, and, on reaching' the years of womanhood, she falls m love with a young physician. lier foster parents, however, have become wealthy m the meantime, and they have in view more ambitious plans for their ward Many interesting incidents follow, but Dorothea, does not fall a victim to schemes laid, but prefers the lore of the young physician, Grant, whom she ultimately marrere. The support include the latest e ' te > f a „|°° d and the seventh chapter of The Girl and the Game " serial.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17317, 17 May 1918, Page 3
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