BRITANNIA
“HIS NATURAL LIFE”
When Eva Novak, who is playing the role of Sylvia Vickers in “For the Term of His Xatural Life,” now screening at the Britannia Theatre, first read the book, she found the dreadful inlet so realistically described in the famous novel that on her first visit to the old penal settlement at Port Arthur, Tasmania, she felt as though she had seen it befdre. Tears were in her eyes when she realised she was acting amid the scenes of such mental and physical anguish, a dim place haunted by the last sighs of men, lost to the world a hundred years ago. Her quietness at the time surprised Eva's fellow-players, but Producer Norman Dawn understood. He knew that “For the Term of His Xatural Life” was the greatest effort of Eva’s career, because she had learned to love that shadow of another century—broken Sylvia Vickers.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 12
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149BRITANNIA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 12
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