OCTAGON AND KING EDWARD THEATRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17533, 27 January 1919, Page 7

OCTAGON AND KING EDWARD THEATRES.

There -were large audiences at the Octagon and King Edward _ Theatres on Saturday afternoon and evening, when a new programme was screened and proved most entertaining. The feature film -was "The Marionettes," with Miss Clara Kimball Young in the title role. Thk is another of those pictures which give us an insight into the social hfo of many of the cities in the old world. The infidelities of men and_ women are depicted by means of marionettes at a party given by a friend of the_ Marquis Roger Montclara at his homo in Paris. The Marquis is one of those young spendthrift celebrities who livo in style and grandeur on inherited incomes, but who find all too soon that it is the pace which kills and that their not unlimited supply of money as exhausted. The Marquis; finding hiself without money, goes to his mother at her country house and asks her to help him, but she refuses unless ho is willing to marry and settle down. He reluctantly agrees to her proposal and marries Femande, an orphan girl who had been brought up in a convent. The quaint, homely ways of his wife palled upon the young Marquis, and he sought consolation in the society, of a Madame Jussy, a social favourite. . The Marquise de Montclars was not long in realising that her husband did not love her, and a period of depression follows. Her uncle, a professor of natural history, seeks to console her, and accepts an/ invitation for her to accompany him to a marionette performance, at the conclusion of which she informed her uncle that she had learned much about life from those little wooden figures, and that she proposed trying that form of living. She carried out her purpose, and by indulging in mild flirtations with her husband's male friends and affecting n\ cool indifference to anything he did soon aroused the jealous instinct in him He at first accuses her of unfaithfulness, and, finding this of no avail, he tries other methods. Almost on the verge of distraction he seeks her forgiveness, and a happy reconciliation is effected. The acting of Miss Young as Fernando is wonderful The other films are the Pathe Gazette and some views of the armistice celebrations in New Zealand.