AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 17 November 1917, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY'S The elaborate' film pantonine, "Snow White" a Famous Players production, in which Miss Marguerite Clark rules supreme as the little princess, will to-night be shown at Everybody's. Full of quaint incidents, and ">*_ settings, and replete with the most J charming interest, this delightful story of princes and queens, forsaken little princesses, curious dwarfs, poison potions and magic mirrors, has been evolved to its present appearance by a master hand, and one with a truly wise eye for pretty stage effects. Everybody knows the story of Snow White as told by Grimm but it remained to the producers to create in the Famous Players studios, a picture version of such a rare charm alike for old folks and the young. As Snow White, the forsaken princess, Miss Marguerite Clark rises to a height of naivete that must give her many admirers yet another argument in her favour as the most winsome screen star. She is perfectly adapted for the characterisation of a beautiful princess beloved by fairies, and one I against whom the charms of evil witches, bad old women, and cruel men cannot avail. tfn the same programme there will be found several other films of the highest interest. - n ; THREE STARS i iidr . y . .To-night a Triangle Masterpiece, en-' >■ ~titled "The Sin. Ye Do." on the unwritten law, starring the great actor Frank .Keenan. He is supported by three Triangle stars, Margery Wilson, Md Margaret Thompson, . and .Howard Hickman, who was the hero of "Somewhere in France." The plot is unique and its pivot situation equals in intensity anything met with hitherto in the pieture world. Hickman, discovering the hero in an equivocal situation with his wife says, "You hound,'ls there'any :!( ' reason whyT should not' kill* you? and '•' the reply 1 is There is a girl in h: ' : - -'thei Tombs accused of murder and lam 'going to defend her. That girl is my daughter. Grant me the time for her A defence and I will make any reparation • ' •- that you demand." "Too indulgent husband, too many idle moments, too flexible a conscience, these form the ground > ■ of the terrible trap into which falls Margaret Thompson in her role of Mrs. Darrow in "The Sin Ye Do." "It was the hand of God operating through the hand of an innocent girl." This is how the murder of Dace Whitlock is described in "The Sin Ye Do," by Frank Keenan in the role of the astute lawyer Barrett Steele. He has manouvred a jury of married men and to them his appeal in favour of what he calls "The , Law of Decency" has <rreater force than the prosecutor's "Thou Shalt not Kill." The Seventh Episode of "Gloria's Romance," featuring Billie Burke, Gau mbnt Graphic. The whole programme V is an all star one.

BANK NOTE FORGERIES.

NOTES OF TWO BANKS. MANY PAID THROUGH "TOTE." CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 15. A number of counterfeit banknotes were circulated in Christchureh during carnival week, when to the pressure of business, the chance of detection was minimised. The notes purport to be one-pound notes on the Bank of Australasia and the National Bank of New Zealand. and are photographic reproductions, which arc easily distinguished from good notes on close examination. These notes were found by the Union Bank of Australia among a very large number paid in by the Canterbury Jockey Club. They had been paid in through the totalisator at the racecourse, and it was owing to their being amongst such quantity of notes, which took to sort that their presence discovered earlier. The Bank of Australasia forged notes have all been made, so far as is known | at present, from one photograph, and Wthey boar the number "p 32015." The forgeries on the National Bank bear the vvxabeT "A 124670." »