"PLAYTHINGS OF DESTINY."

Shannon News, 30 January 1923, Page 2

"PLAYTHINGS OF DESTINY."

A spectacular and thrilling drama is "Playthings oi' Destiny," at the local theatre to-morrow night, with Anita Stewart, this week. Miss Stewart does some of the best work of her career in depicting the emotions of a woman who has no choice but to believe that the man she loves with all her soul has tricked her into marriage when he has a N legal wife .still living. Her flight from his cabin through a raging blizzard, her losing fighl against, the elements, and then her rescue, provide a series of tense incidents which hold the large audiences tense in their seats. One such spectacle is enough to pul the production in the list of exceptionally-staged productions, but later, a tornado is shown at the height of its destructivoness in Jamacia. Persons and objects are whirled about on the screen in the grip of the colossal wind. The clearing away of misunderstandings between Julie and her real [husband and lover comes while the tornado is. j raging, at the moment when both be- j lieve they are facing death. j