"HEIRESS FOR A DAY."
Captivating little Olivo Thomas is the central figure of the Triangle feature "Heiress for a Day," commencing at the Octagon and King Edward ihc-atrcs tomorrow afternoon, and she should prove to bo a sure magnet. No oik 1 having once seen. her would care to miss a picturo in which this piquant star appears. As Helen Thurston, she is manicurist at a fashionable hotel, and she falls in lovo with Standring, a very wealthy young man. She laments the fact that his world is not her world, and envies the dazzling creatures who arc his friends. Standving, however, has a great liking for her. News arrives that she has inherited a fortune; and she straightway discards tho sweet simplicity which has cliarmed him, and tries to emulate the false ways of his social equals, with tho result that he begins to dislike her heartily. The story has much humour, but there are some very touching -scenes, especially when it appears that the fortune she inherited was a false report, and she :s assailed , by hordes of alarmed creditors. Olive was never more fascinating, and the picture will enhance her reputation greatly, provided it has not already reached such proportions that there is no room for enhancing. Tho box plan is at the Bristol.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17425, 20 September 1918, Page 2
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