AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 February 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS

i There will ho two star pictures [ submitted to-night, one being the : popular Triangle Keystone, featuring i Ford sterling. In this you will see | rheumatic cripples on a snowfield chased by a bear . The other star is a Vitagraph, entitled “Red Stephano.” There are also the famous dancers, Seymour Hicks and Elaine Tcrrlss, in their famous dances, supported by “With the French Army,” A Trip Through Basque, War Cartoons, Topical Budget. Brief Synopsis cf “Snow Cure.”— Fo. d Sterling and a number of Keystcuers and Keystonesses go up to the land of snows somewhere in California, and then the real fun starts. Sterling decided he needs sanitorium treat ment, so the snow-cure Doctor straps him down on a table, and then turns a bear loose in the place. Sterling and a lot of other patients clad in bathing suits are chased all over the surrounding country by this bear, R remarkably well-trained animal, wading through icy rivers and tobogganing about in great style. There Is probably the greatest collection of fat and lean people in this picture ever seen together. Where they could all. be got for the purpose is a mysten-. Those people who are unable to laugh at the “Snow Cure” must be in a bad way indeed. It is a veritable fun riot EVERYBODY'S. At the Town Hall on Saturday there was a good house and a most appreciative audience. “The Coal King’ ’was first screened, the plot and its interpretation being both excellent The interest from start to finish never flags. “The Grey Mask” breathes adventure, and startling situations accumulate during the screening of the five separate parts so rapidly and unexpectedly that the audience is keyed up to a pitch of tense excitement, which in no way tends to lax until the fall of the curtain. The opening scenes depict the heroine, Nora Kridel, planning to avenge her father, who has been duped and ruined by a band of schemers, chief among whom is Heim ion, whose virtues are nil and his vices immeasurable. Nora is ably supported by Joe Garth, who has long cherished an affection for her. Reunion, in turn, enlists the leadership of another criminal, -who is known chiefly because of a grey mask which he invariably wears. Garth decides to impersonate him, and then the battle begins in earnest. The avengers gain the confidence of the criminals and proceed on their path of ven- i geance. Eventually vengeance is reaped, and the successful parties are happily united. A splendid cbmecty, “The .Curse of a Name,” completed a programme well worth seeing, and those who missed it. on Saturday should make a point of being present to-night, when it will be screened again for the last time.