AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 23 October 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS The new programme screened at the Three Stars to-night i s one of exceptional lengthy merit and beauty. The favourite actor, Thurlow Bergen, makes a welcome re-appearance in n delightful romance “The Lottery Man.” The hero is a young man who is the hero of his college, a great athlete and a good sport. Coming h .me for the vacation he finds that his mother has lost all her' fortune, and is actually taking in sewing to keep things going. He sets out to find work and lights upon a brilliant idea. He puts himself up as a matrimonial prize at a dollar a time to the women of America. A coupon is issued which costs a dollar entitling ? ° the holder to 100,000 dollars and the young man as husband. If she wins the prize and doesn’t want the husband, she can forfeit half the prize. All goes smoothly, but he has fallen in love with Helen, and she wifh him. Helen and her brother make a great attempt to corner the market in coupons 5 but when the prize is drawn, the man and the money falls to Helen’s fat cook. However, the cook elects to take half the money and marry her old lover, and all ends happily. This programme will be shown for the last time to-night. EVERYBODY’S In the latest William Fox production “Should a Mother Tell?” showing-to-night at Everybody’s. There is seen dramatic action that is rarely if ever beheld upon the screen. The story itself, by Rex Ingram, is one of exceptional power and presents a problem that calls for dramatic action of such intensity as could be portrayed by perhaps no other actress than Betty Nansen. Faced with the tragic responsibility of choosing between her daughter’s happiness and the lifij of an innocent man there 7 comes into play tlre'‘world-old primitive instinct of a v mother to protect her child. Her first'wild lmpulse--ifeT to sacrifice all for owm Later comes a reaction Can she stand by-f and permit the blood of an-innocent' man to be shed? So the cruel struggle rages within thc motherlai hear: Now her instinctive mother-passion-is uppermost. Now- her sense of riglr and justice It is a big efuestiori; Miss Nansen, in “Should a Mother Tell” has one solution for it. You may or may not agree with it,’ but you certainly want to see it.

PUBLIC SCHOOL BALL. ■ ' , APPEAL TO PARENTS. i ■ “ I The Taihape School Committee has [found itself near the[ end of its finan--1 cial tether, and it has decided to ap? ! peal to the public, through the medium of a School Ball, so that, ,-it t may, continue its useful work. The-ball 4®^to take place in the Town Hall on the 9th November, giving" everyohe = plenty lof time to make preparations. This method of raising revenue has proved effective in the past- but was discontinued when war broke out, and no school ball has been held for .three years. While asking for the support of the public, the committee emphasises what has been done by pupils of the school during the war period. Funds have extensively been raised by means of concerts, by sacrifice of picnics, and prizes, by individual as well as by combined effort, so that patriotic funds have been materially increased by their aid. As education is of vital importance to the community, it is hoped that citizens will give the Committee their whole-hearted support in furtherance of its desire to continue to improve the school life or our children for which the raising of 7 & funds is essential. In the past parents have not failed the Committee when appeals of this nature have been made, and they feel sure that similar generous support will be accorded their effort on the flth November next.