AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 July 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS.

There will be complete changes every - f night at the’ Three Stars this week. To-night Gladys Hullette will appear in “Prudence the Pirate.” Prudence is the niece of a prim woman who is society struck and resents anything like gay spirits. After coming home from school Prudence nearly goes crazy for some outlet for her mischievous desires and she turns down with scorn the hand of of young millionaire Astorbilt who is rather girlish. After a great deal of scheming Prudence is assisted by a ymuth she has become , friendly with to get together a crew for a schooner she had purchased. Her girlish dreams now become true, she dresses the scratch up in pirates’ clothes, and then kidnaps her aunt, and young Astorbilt from the houseboat. Toung Astorbilt turns nut to be a chip off the old block, for to the stupefaction of Prudence, by bribery and corruption he manages to get himself made captain of the crew. She locks herself up in her cabin in great grief and refuses to have anything to do with him. The ship takes fire, and one of the crew, (the aunt’s old bulter) goes off' in the boat in a headwrap which makes him look like Prudence, and she is left locked in the cabin of the burning ship. Astorbilt finds out after they have rowed some distance, and displaying great pluck eventually gets Prudence out of her awful position and incidentally' wins her heart. Supporting the above is the 14tK episode of the “Black Box,’’ and British Submarines in the Mediterranean. The whole programme is for. one night only.

EVEBTBOh Y s. It is not surprising that Everybody’s did excellent business on Saturday when a new Paramount feature, entitled. "The Victory of Conscience, ” raad« its initial appearance : on the screen. The story is highly interesting. , and in it there arc depths of pathos and sentiment, that are not often combined in the same film. It is admirably mounted and the work of a strong cast, headed by the famous international star Lon Tcllegan, and the sweet little actress Cleo Eidgely, serves to keep the spectators sympathies active throughout. A Bray cartoon, travel and comedy film support the feature film Altogether the programme is well worth seeing.

“BABY .MINE.”

TO-MORROW NIGHT.

Theorists who concern themselves with “affaires domestique, ”if you may be permitted the license to use such a term, usually regard it as an axiom that the childless marriage is doomed to failure. 'Apart from the exceptions, which in some mysterious way are always said to prove rules, the axiom is accepted pretty generally, and the arrival of the little stranger is her* aided as the solution of many domestic difficulties. Margaret Mayo, however*, in her clever farce Baby Mine, which will be presented here at the Town Hall, to-morrow night by the J. C. M illiamson Farce Comedo* Companv headed by the two popular artists ort Greig and Beatrice Holloway, has" not merely proved an exception. Sha has attacked tlie axiom, and incidentally—or perhaps primarily, since the play is nothing less than a serious at- ■ tempt to make people laugh—she has written one of the neatest and funniest farces ever seen. Miss Mayo sets out with the idea that the arrival of the family provides trouble and heaps of it, and being a woman who adopts the right of a woman to make her yea a nay, and in the last moment demolishes her own good case established with much gaiety. The J. C. Williamson Company which, plays Baby Mine, has made a popular success of the production. Contemporaries speak of the performance and the performers in glowing terms and of Miss Beatrice Holloway’s characterisation of the part of Zoic. Of the comedy itself, they say that Baby Mine, is clever, it is daring, it is undeniably funny, but, best of all, it never falters. The story of the comedy is a simple one and we will give a brief resume of the plot in a later issue of this paper. One thing is certain and that is, that Baby Mine was written to please and to make people laugh and in this respect it does wot fall short of its requirements.

The Box Plan of reserved seats now-on view at Sherwin’s and we vest* ture to advise all to secure seats door stalls and pit tickets may cured at Sherwin’s to-morrow afteiSik noon. -V :