AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 September 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THREE STARS "The Man Without a . Soul."—ln a working class parish a vigorous agnostic propaganda has had its effect on the factory people. Young Stephen Ferrier, the son of the saintly vicar of the parish, is about to tak"e holy orders and long s to begin the fight against unbelief. Stephen protects a ragged girt Lucy, from her hulking brute of a father, "Juicy Joe," who has put his own interpretation on Gedge's anti-sentimentalist views and is about to sell the child to a young man about, town. When this is foiled, Joe forces the terrified girl into the arms of Scrubby Walker. Again Stephen intervenes, and marries Lucy. Harden realises that .he has lost his influence over the men, and determines to recover it by bringing Professor Gedge. The professor finds himself faced by a hostile audience and a free fight begins.. In the professor's house Stephen enters into a discussion with the great man, and had almost been converted when an accident, in the laboratory results in a violent electric shock to both men. As Gedge comes back to himself the doctor pronounces life to be extinct in Stephen. After the boy's father had gone Gedge says to the doctor. "That sentimentalist's God won't give him back his son, I will-." And by this science he shocks the lifeless clay into speech and movement. It is not Stephen, however, who rises from the operating table, but a thing in his likeness, only a man without a soul. And this creature wrecks the Ferrier's home. The appalled scientist himself prays to the God he has denied to undo his work. With that prayer both Gedge and Stephen wake to a new life, in which doubt has no part. EVERYBODY'S A capacity audience was present at the popular Everybody's Theatre on Saturday night to witness the initial presentation of the new programme. "Miss George Washington"—a Famous production— proved one of the most popular pictures shown at this Theatre, the story being charming and the pourtrayal of the title role by the brilliant little actress, Marguerite Clark, being splendid. The most partisan citizen in the world must admit, that Marguerite Clark is a popular idol who is second to no star in the universality of her appeal and that in the three yeais in which she has been before the public as a photoplayer she ha s increased her popularity and her following and the end is not yet. Ever since her introduction to the motion picture public the Famous Players have carefully guarded Miss Clark from any form of suggestiveness such as has been made the chief stock in trade of other types of players, until, now it is inevitable that she should be associated in the public mind with cnly the most desirable elements of photo play presentation.