AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 2 April 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS.

A. wonderful proto-play has been built around Booth Tartingtbn's very human story of life in Platville, "The Gentleman from Indiana," to be shown at the Three Stars Theatre to-night. Booth Tarkington's stories are immensely popular for their true to life characters. Men and women, good and bad, are ust like the people we all know in our town, but the master hand of the author weaves their lives,, and loves, their follies, and vices into* the web of a powerful novel, throbbing with incident, and abounding iiWdramatic situations. "The Gentlenian. from Indiana" is John Harkness (played by Dustin Farnam), the big- varsity footballer who goes down to Platville to run the "Platville Herald," knocks out the corrupt political boss system, breaks up the notorious Whitecaps,. and falls in love with the sweetest girl in the town. It is a great story, and if anything, is even greater on tiefilm. A good selection of suporting items complete the programme.