AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 September 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S • It has frequently been said that the stage and the screen cannot impart a moral lesson without becoming dull. This statement is proved to be unjust to the Paramount picture, “The Martyrdom of Phillip Strong,” to be shown at Everybody’s to-night. This powerful photo-play has been adapted from the work of the well-known authe Rev, Charles M. Sheldon, and is a forcefully enacted dram: wherein a minister, at the height of his popularity, realises that his sermons are as tinkling brass and sounding symbols, for he is not living up to them. Throughout the play, whilst the tenseness of the drama absorbs one’s interest, never for a moment is it thrust upon one that a great less ■ is being taught, but as the last scene flickers a«ross the screen one realises that a tremendous thought and a great inspiration have been embodied in the play. It is a picture with a purpose—telling a great story—nobly acted and beautifully photographed. 9) THREE STARS Edith Storey and * Antonio Moreno at the head of a strong cast in a clever and absolutely original Greater Vitagraph film romance—that is a strong recommendation for “Alladin from Broadway,” now screening at The Three Stars. The sparkling interesting story gives Edith Storey every opportunity to display her sweetly tomboyish charm and in the Eastern wedding scene when she persists in peeping to see her handsome bridegroom, she is truly fascinating. Antonio Moreno a s the young American who proceeds to Eastern lands to settle a wager and return with a pretty wife, is full of virile energy and dash, and contrives to look handsome in whatever costume. The desert scenes ar e wonderfully convincing, and the Greater Vitagraph Company bids fair to eclipse all makers pictures in the matter of superb photograph’"’. The action of tlm story is rapid, fitting , from New Ynr’fn Damascus, and there are plentv o f fbrTJs and ulentv of moments when f/'e here's life hangs in the balanee. The supports to this high-class picture are in every way worthy of if andjgor variety of subject and superb rhatfcuphy. are unique.