AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 10 November 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS

A whirlwind could hardly cover more ground at a sharper pace thaa Douglas Fairbanks does in the clever comedy drama entitled "The Matrimaniac," screening at the Three Stars to-night. The athletic champion of the Triangle Studios is seen at his very best ? and the stunts he performs are in the nature of miracles. In one case for instance he runs up a wall perpendicularly in the most impossible fashion and there performs more than one miracle of agility Constance Talmadge is a delightful heroine, and is one of the best of the coming stars. The story is taken from a novelette by two good American writers, and lately appeared in'the "All-Story Magazine." The tale hangs together, and without the rush and flurry of Fairbanks' clever work would have an interesting, straightforward romance "Your eyes shine like the scent of the jasmine in a lake of silver." This is a splendid mixed metaphor made by Doug. Fairbanks as the ardent lover in "The Matrimaniac." A marriage by telephone seems an impossibility, but this is ,the final, effort of Douglas Fairbanks after he has been maft'led in a hundred ways in "The Matrimaniac." To abduct a parson from his bathtub and carry him off to assist in a marriage ceremony seems a daring proceeding but this is nothing to the other whirlwind efforts of Fairbanks in "The Matrimaniac". It is little wonder that the two of them are taken for •scaped lunatics and the train officials wire ahead for officers. The 6th episode of "Gloria's Romance," Pathe Gazette, Bombardment of Nieuport the Eruption of Waimangu,- will also be shown".

EVERYBODY'S

A double star programme will tonight be shown at Everybody's, one of which is the picturisation of Emile Zola's masterpiece, entitled "The Man and the Woman." The original story j which aroused the world to discussion when it was first published has been followed closely in the adaptation only, the locale being changed from Paris to New York. This wil lbe the first of Zola's works screened in Taihape, and is bound to interest and thrill those who witness it. The second star is the Paramount This will be the first of Zola's works old .McGrath wrote the original novel, and its success has been enhanced by the Famous Players by their vivid screen adaptation. Donald Brian takes the hero part, and Miss Ada Gleason is the heroine. Together they'work out the powerful romance that adds appeal and human interest to this exciting story. The supports add a big variety of interest, and make the programme of special apepal.