EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17691, 31 July 1919, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE

"Heredity "—brief, but covering much ground—is the title of tho chief pioture at Ljvcrybodj's Theatre. Madge Evans and John Bowers fill leading parts, and fully maintain their reputations as-screen artiste, lhe story concerns little Nedda Trevor, a winsome girl, who is knocked down by an automobile. She is urged by her stepfather —a. character of a very bad type—to pretend injuries for the purpose of recoveringdamages. She goes to warn tho driver of tho automobilo of the attempt to obtain money from him, and she never forgets tho incident. Years later Nedda is "grown into a beautiful woman," and her employer. Groves, would like to marry her, but JNeclda, probably with the motor car driter still fresh in her mind, refuses, on the good ground that marriage would b© a mockery without love. She "comes of the blow of the Trevors," and her mother has instilled in Nedda a belief in loyalty to self And so it goes on that her dissofute stepfather murders his wife (Nedda's mother), and Nedda is accused- of thecrime. In her despair she appeals to Groves for assistance, and he responds with a proposition that the price of his help is nirnW Naturally, Nedda refuses the exchange iaLl very soon, by ono of those turns in the S he , el °? fortune, the motor car driver, t U i W i nslOTV ', finds her. He clears her oi tfto charge levelled against her, and the pair are "mado one" in the good old orthodox fashion. "Heredity" is supported by a lopical Budget, a scenic ("St. Albans") and a Vita comedy, "Turks and Troubles.* 5