EVERYBODY'S AND KING EDWARD THEATRES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18293, 9 July 1921, Page 6

EVERYBODY'S AND KING EDWARD THEATRES.

* An excitin'; picture, reminiscent of piracy on the high seas, entitled ‘'Dead Men Toll No J ale-.' headed the change of programme at the livery body's aim Ding Edward Theatres yesterday. The picture deals with modern piracy, and a brief synopsis is as follows-rtenor Joaquin Santos, a dcscendam of Spanish buccaneers, persuades Squire Rattray, an Englishman, to assist him in capturing a vessel carrying gold from Australia. I! jiltniy coriKOUis oiily hcvJiusf' ho iv in love, with Eva Dennison, Santos's stepdaughter. 'I he two charter a. ship, Rattray believing that the captured passengers would be placed on' an island, while (ho Spaniard's policy is “Dead men tell no tales.” After an exciting light the treasure ship is captured, and the geld removed by the pirates, who set the Lady Jermyn, ns the boat was called, on lire. Cole, a voting "lawyer, is picked up ‘by a lifeboat which contained the remainder of the Lady Jermyn’s passengers anj crew. The conspirators land and cany the chests of gold through a former smugglers’ tunnel, and live in fancied security in a descried mansion near the sea const. After many adventures the conspirators are captured and handed over to justice, and Rattray wins the girl he loves. Included in a good list of supports are a Gnumont Graphic, a Pollard eomedv, ami (lie Kth ep’sode of (he “Lost City” serial.