EMPIRE THEATRE
The leading picture in the change of programme at the Empire Theatre is entitled "A Desert Wooing," a Famous Payers v production featuring Miss Enid Bennett. The story is a rather unusual one. Under the influence of the air of Arizona three more or less corrupt products of civilisation are reformed. Van Brunt Burton, a rich dweller in a vicious city, dies and loaves a widow, a son Billy, and a daughter Avice (Enid Bennett). All three are contaminated by the contact with tho social life of the town. Avice marries a copper and cattle king for his wealth, though in love with a libertine, Dr Van Fleet. Tho young wifo goas with her husband to Arizona, where her outlook on life becomes widened and purer. Van Fleet wishes to make love to her, and is suspected by the husband, who thereafter adopts Fetruchio-iiko methods with his wife, gains her respect, and: later her love, and, after many stormy incidents, all ends happily. Included in the programmo are American and Australian Gazettes, and episode No. 9 of the "Eagle Eye."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17636, 28 May 1919, Page 7
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182EMPIRE THEATRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 17636, 28 May 1919, Page 7
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