PLAZA THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17810, 17 December 1919, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

An attractive programme, which met ■with, the approval of a large .udience at-the) first screening yesterday, is _ offered to patrons of the Plaza Theatre this week. Tha headliner is "The Amateur Adventuress," a breezy eomedy.-drama in five acts, giving l Emmy Wehlen, the popular picture actress, a role of unusual charm and originality. She is seen as Norma Wood, a girl who tires of her monotonous existence and determines to seek the adventure which she craves. Two things are necessary, however, for tho undertaking—clothes and money, neither of which she possesses. How she eventually gets them, and what she encounters on hetl quest for excitement, is cleverly shown in this comedy. The play also tolls of the romance and love which come into her life,' and how she decides that theso are tho greatest •, adventures after all. The plot is cunningly constructed to entertain anrl amuse, and Miss Wehlen is eecn in the cleverest characterisation of her career. In-' eluded in the supports are episode 14 of> the serial picture, "Kultur," and a Gazette;