AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWARD'S PICIDRES.

"AIJMOEY."

Tlio largo audience at the • Empire Theatre' last night found "Alimony," the principal picture on the programme one with many points in its favour! This is thb first of the pictures released by "The First National Exhibitors' Circuit/ and if the standard set by this wonderful production is kept up the new trade mark will be a welcome acquisition. "Alimony/ 5 as its name implies, deals with practices that have grown up round the divorce courts in great-modern cities, and is a pointed lesson on the results of making divorce too "free and easy." A .society beauty who regards her'husband simply as a banker, gets rid of him,, but finds that the young clubman on whom her hopes were centred, is too wise to cast in his lot -with her. Ho-falls in love with a sweet and innocent girl, and the thwarted woman sets about a plan of revenge. So ingenious is this, and so confplete - is the plan for dividing the young couple, that it seems quite hopeless for things ever to right theniselves. There are also some other very interesting picture's in support