AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 241, 2 July 1915, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS THEATRE

A splendid programme will be e.ubjmitted to picture-lovers to-night, when [a fine Kalcm star entitled "Fate's Midnigh Hour" will be shown, featuring Alice Joyce. The story is n-s foli lows:—A terrific flash of lightning: awakens Mrs. Durand, and the woman ! dees into the library. There she discovers her husband dead on the floor. i Maria Milton, revolver in hand, stands 'over him. Maria tells of how Durand, after inducing her seventeen-year-old 1 lister, Malissa, to elope, had cast the ghd aside. Malissa returned home a year later, to die, but the blow killed her mother. Thirsting for revenge, j Maria set out to hunt Durand down. "But God would not let me murder," 'she said, "Durand was struck by lightning before I could shoot." A mo- ! meat later Maria disappears into the ' storm. Another interesting picture is entitled "Bulldog Puppies at War." It is.an amusing film in which small boys ipluy the part of the allied armies and 'the Kaiser and his. troops. The War Lord, a small boyjjwith a firce-looklng unturned moustache, inspects his army. Meanwhile, one of his scouts has palled down and trampled on a Union Tack. The little party guarding the n.g set about him and punish him badly and he crawls bock to his comrades with a bitter complaint. The War Lord ie-'-ides to send an ultimatum to the Briton?, "whom we next see marching away to the front. Next is demonstrated the way in which the Lord feeds his army, the looters at their games, bomb-dropping up-to-date, and a proof of the allies' fine artillery. A hand-to-hand engagement proves disastrous for the War Lord's army. lie, himself, takes to flight. His army beaten, his navy no more, life is no longer worth living. With dramatic action he takes poison, and expires amid the bodies of his downfalleu force. Other good films are shown, including a fine Keystone. KING'S THEATRE. A splendid programme is being shown at this theatre. The leading film is a star picture of absorbing interest, entitled "The Battle of the Sexes." It allows how a father, who loved the i members of his family, was estranged from them through his fascination for an actress, and how he was awakened to the seriousness of his action by finding his daughter following in his foot- . steps. The finale i 3 very effective and and the picture is one that all should endeavour to see A splendid scenic, "From to Bergen," is one of the finest of this class that we have . yet seen in Taihape. The humourous | element is also well represented. \