AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 24 October 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S There will bo no pictures in the. Town Hall tonight. To-morrow Thursday a particularly fine picture programme ,wdll bo presented, consisting of two big star attractions, a comedy and travelogue. “The Virginian,” a story of the Grand Old West, from the famous book by Owen Wisher, is a mixture of clever comedy and stalking tragedy. It adheres closely to the stage version of the book, which caused such a sensation some j'ears lack, but it can provide the reality and the atmosphere that no stage play can give. Many of the scenes, such as the changing of the babies, the Hanging of the cattle thieves, etc., which were only suggested in the play, are shown in actual detail, and provide both the comic and tragic moments in the production. The second big attraction is the William Fox production “Should a Mother Tell ’ ’ dealing with a question that upset two continents. Miss Nansen, the world famous emotional actress has one solution for it. You may or you may not agree with it but you certainly want to (it. JThc iprogramme ,5s for one night only.

THREE STARS

The Metro pictures have set for themselves an ideal, and for others a standard which is a very high one, and they are recognised -throughout the world as being the most consistent in the merit of their stories, the quality of the acting, and the general excellence of the productions. The first morality play the screen has given J u s is a Metro offering, entitled “Man and His Soul,” with Francis X. Bushman in the lead. The birth of conscience is shown, following that of life ? love and right. The story is then brought to modern days and John Conscience is the embodiment of that wonderful force in man. However, mainly by the destruction of rove, and the birth of hate,- and' by the ; cruel machinations of Might and Co., John Conscience changes his !: character, and incidentally his' name!; ' and as John Power he crushes hiS ‘ workmen, and drives his friends ‘away 1 acquiring great riches and influence, but losing all the best and beautiful in life. A great shock and the' re

turn of love rekindled his conscience. The play i s exceptionally clever; the drama ? apart from the moral, is gnoo, while the allegory is intermingled just sufficient to follow the workings of the mind or soul.