AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 13 December 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS. "From Out the Big Snows" is a Vita graph Boardway feature, in two parts, presenting James Morrison.. Dorothy Kelly, and other Vitagraph favourites. It describes a vigorous story of adventure enacted amidst the wild snowbound wastes of North West Canada, j Edward Harris, a young miner, falls , in love with a beautiful dance hall ■ girl, who has a fiercely jealous halfbreed lover. "The Village Scandal," a new Keystone comedy, shows a typical village street, with the appropriate hotel infested with gossips and loungers. Roscce Arbuckle, the village fat boy. is winning the affections of Flora Zabelle, a village belle, when Raymond Hitchcock, a travelling trickster, appears on the scene. They all sit down to the table, where HitchcocK attempts to show St. John ,the. superior elegance of eating beans with a fork instead of a knife. Hitchcock wins the girl away from Fatty, and takes her upstairs to the parlour. After indulging in tears for a while, Arbuckle gets a trombone and drowns the music of the couple by playing just outside the window. This angers Hitchcock, and he throws Arbuckle off the piazza, where he lands into the watering trough. He sees Hitchcock and Flora laughing at him, and turns a hose on them. They all get wet and bedraggled and forget all about their budding romance.

EVERYBODY'S,

There was a good and appreciative! audience at the Town Hall last night. when a really fine programme, headed by a World Film "The Heart of the Blue Ridge." was screened. The film is a triumph of photography, every phase of every situation being beautifully clear and brilliantly lighted. It

is to be repeated to-night, and those -who missed it last night should make a point of being present.

In conjunction with pictures, Mr. Norman Tate, N.Z. premier juggler and balancer, will appear, executing a remarkable feat of juggling at light ning speed. Mr. Tate, who is on a tour through the Dominion, is giving exhibitions in the schools in aid of the wounded soldiers. The programme as a whole should afford a delightful evening's entertainment. THE WAYBACKS. After securing undoubtedly one of the greatest successes of recent years in Australia, Mr. Philip Lytton rs bringing his rural comedy company to Taihape. Produced originally at. the Palace Theatre, Sydney, "The Waybacks" ran for six weeks, and. being

forced from there owing to other book ings, was transferred to the Theatre Royal for a further four weeks, a run only stopped at that theatre by the Arrival of one of J. C. Williamson's own

companies. Throughout a comprehensive tour of the Commonwealth, the

initial Sydney success was invariably repeated, and in all the capital centres "The Waybacks" immediately became a popular vogue. hi Auckland the general Australian opinion was enthusiastically endorsed, the rustic comedy drawing crowded and delight ed audiences to His Majesty's Theatre The visit of this company to Taihape is due on Monday next, December IS,

when one performance only will be given at the Town Hall. The box plan

is now open at Finch's Bazaar