AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 September 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS ''THE MADNESS! OF HELEN." r l^* 8 A.shtey ,a . successful young author, is informed that he .has in- ; herited an v old estate in a small village and decides to go dowr/there for a rest. He finds the villagers far behind times and the-house old and picturesque. He; finds. the villagers one day pelting with stones a beautiful young girl, and when he rescues her She bids him let the matter drop, and I disappears through a door in a stone wall. Enquiries make him learn that the girl is Virginia Carlton and that she is crazy and dangerous. His acquaintance with her, however, ripens into love, and when he hears a baby cry, he t-hink s he has fathomed her secret. Then one night he sees her and follows she leading him on m an alluring way, and he is sick at heart, believing her a wanton. However, after many strange scenes Virginia confesses that her twin sister Helen is insane through the desertion of her husband, and eventually the plot ends happily. I There will be a complete change of programme tomorrow night.

EVERYBODY'S THE KREUTZER SONATA. There is no circumstance associated with this motion picture adaptation that can offend the most fastidious, "but nevertheless, in view of the fact that the moral lapse of the principals constitutes the basis of the plot, reason may be found for the restrictions that persons under 21 years of age shall not be permitted to witness the screening of the play. In many respects > "Kreutzer Sonata," may be called the drama of the clash of the "old order changing, giving place to new." j Throughout its shifting scenes, from the sombrely sad plains of Eussia, to the thrifty atmosphere of rural Connecticut and the rush and turmoil of Fcw York .City, this theme and the tragedy of r; noble woman's soul betrayed and relentlessly crushed, form the dominant motif of this play of Splendid force and sweeping [power. This is, in briefest form, an epitome of one of the most remarkable dramas of to-day..