QUEEN'S AND KING EDWARD THEATRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17317, 17 May 1918, Page 3

QUEEN'S AND KING EDWARD THEATRES.

Tho headline now being screened at the te 11 " it! K £ S . Kdwaj ' d '-theatres is entitled Betty Takes a Hand." It is a bright, fascinating, and original story, and Olive Thomas of tho Zigbeid Follies. Olive Thomas was never £ T ' ette f advantage than slie is in this latest Iriangle play. The story, briefly is as follows: Betty learns from her father that in days gone by he lias beeu done out »y partner, James Bartlett, and Bettys uncle, Hamilton Haines. Betty goes to Los Angeles as the guost of her h« '1' tilat T 3 her , COUsin Ida has set .kI f ? -i r OIU Bartlett. and they are aibout to sail for a Panama cruise, with Bartlctfc on.the same yacht. Tom Bartlett quarrels with his father, and leaves in a hu& for the yacht. On his way ho stops at the Haines's house, but finds the Haines party gone, and a strajige beauty posing as Aliss Haines, condticting a board-ing-houso. loin falls victim to the girl's beauty, and becomes tile first boat-dor. Then a cl «"'ce MKomiter between James Bartlett and Betty, m which Bartlett bocomes captivated, and wants to give Betty whose identity he does not know, 60.000 dollars to marry his son. Bettv and Tom are married, and when the fathers on both sides find it out they are furious, but a reconciliation and happy ending are the result. A further instalment of' '".Hie Nr'--lected Wife, ' entitled " A Koekless Indiscretion, and pictures of "Auckland from the oioos and a Gaumont Graphic, are the other pictures.