AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 13 January 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S

Patrons will welcome another Mcrro release at the Town Hall to-night, the more so because that fascinating little screen actress, Mary Miles Minter takes the lead in this sensationally successful play, "Always in the Way." Wmfrcd North,, a rich lawyer, through* stress of business, neglects his fivJ-year-old daughter. The daughter, since the death of her mother, complains of neglect and continually asks for her mother. With no children playmates, no one to caress her, she provokes her father into marrying a widow with two children. This widow discovers that the lawyer has left all his money to his own child. The stepmother, contrives to dispose of her stepchild and succeeds. A missionary .couple, about to leave for Africa, adopt the child. She grows up in Africa. At the age of fifteen she is a little missionary who spreads kind words among the savage natives until the natives kill her fosten parents, after which she makes her way back to New York. The young prospector, who had fallen in love with her, follows her to New York. He learns of her. true parentage and forthwith seeks her father and acquaints him with the step-mother's crime. In the meantime, the girl is an employee of a flower store, and has met her father several times without being aware of \t. After many tribulations,, her sweetheart finds her and takes her to her father's house. The father denounces the step-mother and all ends well.

THREE STARS.

The tragedy of time and the triumph, of youth are exemplified in graph picture play '' Youth,'' which is one of the special features showing at the Three Stars Theatre to-night onlg-» An artist's wife, after sitting for Tall his triumphs and inspiring him to great things in the paths of art., finds herself too old to pose for his crowning success, and sees her place taken by a young fair-haired siren, whom she finds is stealing her husband's affection. Itis a tragic,, yet powerfully entertaining picture, and in the end a chastened and enlightened man learns to distinguish the dross from the gold. The second feature on the programme is the highlyhumourous Triangle comedy "Bright Lights" in which Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand enact a laughable story of the lure of New York's lights, and how a commercial traveller with a large check suit and a small cheque book persuaded Mabel to elope to the city and leave her rustic swain. Fatty discovers her in one of New York's dives on "The Bowery," and the subsequent happenings provide a farce of an unusual kind, guaranteed to make the proverbial eat laugh itself into a fit. The supporting features include the pletty scenic "Around 3raeniar,'' and the ever popular gazette of new T s pictures. The programme will finish up with "Bootle's Baby."'