KING'S" THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17729, 13 September 1919, Page 10

KING'S" THEATRE

An entirely now programme will bo presented at the King's Theatre to-day, commencing at the matinee, when Gladys Lrockwell will appear in her best Fox picture, A. Branded Soul." Tho story lias boon baeed on the legend of Saint Cecilia, although the theino has been modernised, an (I shows what a good, pious, everyday girl can do to better conditions. One of tlie big scenes shows a Roman garden during tho progress of a Bacchanalia. Drunken guests seize nymph-like dan cere and hurl them against the mossy banks of the garden. Wine-blinded youths fall dazed into tho aiit\s of beautiful maidens. Suddenly th' 3 sccnei changes. In another quarter of Rome 11- ecl ' lil, ' s walking among the poor, telling them of the great messago -which it is her mission to bring them. And into her quiet pathway jostle the revellers, &till heavy with the wine of the fonst. Conchita Cordova, tho part played by " Tlie Girl of a Inousand Expressions," is a Mexican girl who comes under tho power of an unscrupulous millionaire. Instead of treating her as ho has treated many other girls, however, he is led bv her simnle faith and piety into renouncing his evil" ways. llis repentance comes almost too late. Tlw people of his village, incensed against him, burn his oil fields and threaten to hang him. Only the pleas of this girl, whom h<3 had sought to wrong, bring them back to their senses, and cause his release. A now Fox comedy and several other lino films will bo ecreencd in conjunction with the above.