HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14869, 18 September 1918, Page 7

HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

"SYLVIA jOF THE SECRET

SERVICE. 7'

I A ne-v and delightfully prcttv star | will make her appearance at th~e Empire Theatre to-night. . Irene Castle, or, as she is better known. Mrs. Ver- | non Castle, is a piquant,1 ultra-fashion-able actress. Eer firsb film play, "Sylvia cf the Secret Service," is a masterpiece. Tho story opens in the officer, of an Amsterdam diamond cutter who entrusts rm enormous jewel to the custody of the hero. . The latter takes .elaborate precautions to keep the big str>n.i» wire, but a desperate gang defers^ \hi7i). A vain and obstinate Scotia7i.t Yard official arrests hun as the oiihrit, and it is only after much] ingenuity and many strange .adventures' that Sylvia rescues the hero from his! predicament. In the course of the play Sylvia poses for her own purposes as a Western American millionairess, and this gives her the opportunity of displaying some daring and amazing costumes. Supporting the above feature wilt be an instalment of the "Pathe History of the War," a recent Gazette, and '/Jerry's Romance," a humorbus comedy featuring GeorgeOney. . \