OCTAGON THEATRE.
“Ponjcla,” Sarn E. Rork’s First National picturisation of Cynthia Stocklcy’s masterpiece of South African life, will be the feature to-night at the Octagon Theatre. “Potijola” is a stirring story of action and romance staged in the Rhodesian goldfields. The play centres about an English noblewoman, an innocent victim of scandal, who goes to the goldfields to lose her identity. Fho masquerades as a man, and as such lives for months with the hardened characters of the veldt, fighting the curse of ponjola and fisrhting for the redemption of the man who had previously saved her from self-destruction. The plot moves quickly, passing from one thrilling incident to another. Involved in intrigue and murder, the girl is willing to sacrifice herself for I,he man she loves —even to standing trial for a killing. Ti s theme is entirely different from anything ever shown on the screen before. Special music has been selected for this programme, and will be i,lu- Octagon Concert Orchestra. The overture will be “William Tell.” .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 8
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169OCTAGON THEATRE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 8
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