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'Broken Hill picture lovers will next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, also at a matinee on Saturday afternoon, have an opportunity of witnessing at the Theatre Royal the six reel all-Australian film production "A Romance of the Burke and Wills Expedition, 1860," which depicts the daring of Robert O'Hara Burke, who risked and lost his life, with his comrades, Wills and Gray, in a dash across the Australian continent, from Melbourne to Carpentaria. The expedition was entrusted to the care of Robert O'Hara Burke, assisted by Wills, King, Gray, Dandells and Brake. They left Royal Park, Melbourne, and after many days and much suffering three of the party reached the northern coast and returned starving and exhausted to their camp at Cooper's Creek, only to find that their comrades had left, and that death stared them in the face. One by one they perished till only King was left to tell the tale to the rescue party which arrived just in time to save him. The story is relieved by a strain of romance.'

Source:

'Burke and Wills Expedition', Barrier Miner, 24 September 1918, p.2.

Yachts and Hearts is an obscure film, which seems to have drawn little attention in the contemporary press.

An advertisement in the Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate describes it as 'A Thrilling Detective Drama, depicting a romance of Sydney Harbour, brimful of local interest' (20 April 1918, p.4) and an advertisement in the Dungog Chronicle added 'See the great motor smash, police raid on gambling saloon, and a girl's thrilling biplane flight over Sydney' (25 June 1918, p.2). The sub-title indicates that the detective portion of the script involved drug smuggling, but little else can be ascertained.