EMPIRE THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17327, 29 May 1918, Page 8

EMPIRE THEATRE

Conspicuous iu tho now programme soretuiod for tho first timo at tho Umpire ltieatro yesterday is a Paramount picture ontjtlixl -Double (Jios.sod," in which Mis* lauiiio Frederick is tlio star. It is a story ot how ii dovoted young wifo saves bor husband from being exposed in connection with a boyish offoneo ho hns commil.to.i long ago . Eleanor overhears a conversation between her husband and a man named Worthington, learns of the "weak not committed by her husband in youth unci becomes aware that thero is an attempt beirur made to blackmail liirn She sets to work to defeat the plot, her modus operandi being to obtain possession of a paper, winch her husband is commanded to steal under pain of exposure. This is held by Worthington, and she succeeds in Retting hold of it. Her next move- is 1o go to a detective named Foley, for thy purpose of handing over the document in exchange for tho signed confession of her husband. The detective, after getting from her the document sho has abstracted fails to give up the confession. That night she returns to Foley's apartments, finds him iialf intoxicated, a.nd attempts to drw him Ho seizes her, but in so doing stumbles, and in falling strikos hie head, and becomes ineensible. Moanor secures the papers, and gets safely back. Other incidents follow, but everything comes right in tho end. The sott ngs are on a scalo of great splendour and the costumes worn by the star actress Z™ V" f I? pictures are a new Victor Moore comedy, entitled "CampInn;,. 1 a r American Gazette of recent topical events.