AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 29 March 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY S. The following is a brief synopsis of the star film at Everybory’s to-night: “The Gilded Spider”-—Cyrus Kirkham is cruising on his yacht, when he goes ashore to an Italian village which is gaily decked for some festivity. Leonita one of the dancers, attracts his attention. He kidnaps the girl, and takes her on the yacht. Leonita jumps overboard and is drowned. Giovanni, hen brother, determines to be revenged, and follows Kirkham to America, taking his little daughter Elisa. Kirkham sees the picture and sets about to make the girl’s acquaintance. Giovanni is always looking for Kirkham, and seeing him in the street one day, follows him home. Mrs Kirkham maintains a mission home, and Eliza and her grandmother are frequent visitors. Winston has lost all trace of Eliza, but one day, when calling on Mrs Kinkham, discovers her, and urges her to pose again for him. Mrs Kirkham endorses the plan. Gio-

vanni objects, but he secs a way to complete his vengance by kidnapping Mrs Kirkham. Giovanni’s attempt is frustrated by Winston. Meanwhile, Giovanni has gone to the Kirkham house to demand a ransom. He meets Kirkham, who is so overcome with fright that he dies of heart failure. Giovanni rushes upstairs hearing gaiety and sees his daughter dancing for the guests. He dashes to the edge of the roof and is killed. Winston and Elisa are left free to love each other.

THREE STARS. The tender womanly charm which characterises the art of Blanche Sweet in “The Secret Orchard/’ is delightfully depicted in the film adaptation of Chaning Pollock’s intensely interesting book of that name, to be shown to-night only at the Three Stars Theatre. The story, as filmed for the screen has a dramatic opening, and the human interest of the plot, thus awakened at the very start, is sustained right to the end. A child, disturbed in its slumbers by the noisy gaiety of a party of revellers, which include her mother, herself a demimondaine, steals into the entrance of the whirl, and creates a sudden and dramatic sensation. Then a coarse jest is heard and the mother hurries from the room with the child in her arms. The years pass by. The baby grows into a beautifully fresh and innocent maiden after her schooling in the Convent ,and is betrayed by a nobleman, into whose home, unknown to him, she is afterwards received by his wife. The meeting of the betrayer and the betrayed is one of the sensations of the play. The girl is loved by a young lieutenant who visits the house, and subsequently is made aware of the tragedy which darkened the dawn of her womanhood He fights a duel with the girl’s betrayer, mortally wounds him, and all ends happily. The supporting items include a side-splitting comedy by the Vitagraph Company, “Mr. Jack’s Hat and His Cat”, a Graphic, and other pictures.