AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 August 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS Many films are included in the bill which was shown for the first time at the " Three Stars” Theatre last night. Principal honours go to a "London Film Co.” production called Arsene Lupin which has very many features that are distinctly novel. The story is frankly sensational and is full of thrills from start to finish. The master burglar is a long way more than a match for Guechard the famous French detective and some of his devices for outwitting the representatives of law and order are little less than miraculous. Gerald Ames is a very attractive a popular hero and Manora Thew makes an unusually pretty heroine. The end, of the story is pathetic and most impressive. This splendid programme will be shown to-night for the last time and should not be missed by picture-goers. EVERYBODY’S A film beyond criticism is "The Years of the Locust" in which Fanny Ward the genuine artist whose name and fame is on the lips of all has a pleasing role which she carries out perfectly. The film is from the Lasky studios and is another link in the long chain of successes that is being forged by this company. The other films are also above reproach. To-morrow the celebrated actress Dorothy Bernard appears in the William Fox production of "The Little Gipsy" produced by Oscar Apfel from the scenario by Walter Dare. Miss Bernand who played opposite Nance O’Neil in "Princess Romanoff" is a true daughter of the stage. This artist whos e daintiness, and charm have made her beloved the world over made her Mundane debut at Port Elizabeth, South African, nineteen years ago. At,, the outbreak of the Boer -war her; father decided to move into Johannesburg. The journey w r as a perilous one. At last Johannesburg was reached and a famished, half dead baby was rushed to the hospital. Fortunately for the stage the spark of life was not quite extinct in little Dorothy and she was nursed back to health amid the roar of big guns and the rattle of rifles. Since that time Miss Bernard has travelled all over the civilised world. She is the youngest emotional actress upon the screen. Th e signing of Miss Bernard is a distinct achievement for Mr. Fox, and she is being paid on enormous salary for her work in the Fox features.