AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 7 December 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS The war has naturally led to the making of great stories, but none has created a greater sensation than "Little Comrade," the picturisation of which under the name of "On Dangerous Ground" is being screened at the Three Stars to-night. In this fine play, a young American doctor, seeking to get out of Germany, finds himself the companion of a young and beautiful French girl, a member of the French Secret' •Service. After a number of hairbreadth escapes," the two swim the great river dividing Germany from Belgium, but the girl is captured by a German patrol. All ends well, however, and the touch of romance is added, as inevitably the hero loves and marries his "little comrade." . There are a number of remarkable situations in the story, as may be expected, and the play is further remarkable for the variety and ingenuity of many of its features. There are scenes in Berlin, in AlsaceLorraine, at Aachen, and at the Belgian frontier. Gail Kane is a delectable heroine, and Carlyle Blackwell a manly and handsome hero. The peeps at actual warfare in "On Dangerous Ground" are cleverly fashioned, and in spite of the fact that they are only incidental to the thread of the story, give a thrilling vision of the dreadful incidents that accompany war times in any country. EVERYBODY'S Amusement-loving film fans who are accustomed to seeing Eoscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle cavorting on the picture screen in the midst of whirling flour sacks and broken dishes or dodging motor cars which have run wild will have an opportunity to view him in a variation of his usual role —that of the spectator at one of his own comedies — when "The Reckless Eomeo" is shown at Everybody's to-morrow (Saturuay). In this, the second of the comedy two reelers which have been made under the big comedian's own standard and which are released by Paramount, "Fatty" figures in the lens-light as one of the patrons in a Broadway motion picture house, where, all unsuspectingly, he has brought his family for a pleasant evening, only to find that an episode in his flirtations career, has been caught by an energetic camera-man and is unreeled before the horrified eyes of his wife and his mother-in law. The theatre scene in "The Beckless Eomeo" is a faithful reproduction of the interior of one of New York's finest photo-play houses.

"The Black Wolf" a Lasky production featuring the noted player San Tollegan is also shown.