AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 28 December 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THREE STARS All the splendour of the Russian ballet season in Paris adorns the powerful World Film drama “The Dancer’s Peril,” now showing at the Three Stars. Alice Brady is seen here, in her very best role to date. She has a beautifully moulded form and superb arms, and her dancing is a thing to be wondered at, especially in the fine scenes with Alexis Kosloff, the great Russian dancer from the Russian Imperial ballet. The heroine is the daughter of a Russian Grand Duke, who, afraid to recognise her, has had her brought up as a dancer. She meets the greedy eyes of Pavloff, a profligate aristocratic scoundrel who finally inveigles her into'his apartments. Her mother, t. dancer also, manages to seek the girl out, and in a terrific scene shoots Pavloff down. The photography of the play is wonderful, and it is crowded with rich settings The stage scenes of the great Russian ballet are particularly fine. The latest Keystone in two parts and other pictures support the above. t

EVERYBODY’S A double-star programme will tomorrow be shown at Everybody’s. Wallace Reid and Myrtle Stcdman, popular Lasky stars, appear together on the screen for the first time in the “Prison without walls” —a story of prison reform, thrilling in the extreme, and with a thread of suspense' that only snaps with a pistol shot in the last reel. The plot gives a remarkable insight into municipal politics, and of the power of the man “higher up,’’ who forces his contemporaries to obey for fear of their lives. In this picture Wallace Reid plays the most forceful character of his career. The second item is a “Bluebird’’ release, “'A Jewel in Pawn,” featuring Ella Hall. The story tells of a girl who is put into pawn by her mother, who married against her father’s wishes. The girl wraps herself around the heart of tho pawnbroker, and his heartstrings are broken when the grandfather of the girl brings her to his pretentious home. f School makes a finished debutante of the girl, but when her grandfather objects to her pals from the shady side, of the .city she leaves him for the pawnshop. Here she marries the youth of her choicp, and everything ends happily. A comedy and a Gazette complete the programme.

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