AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 29 December 1917, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE.

To-night, at the King’s Theatre, all previous records will be eclipsed, the programme including three stars:'“A Gamble in Souls,” “The Secret of the Submarine,” and another episode of “Gloria’s Eomance.” Following is a brief synopsis of “A Gamble in Souls Arthur Worden is a strange individual, conducting religious services at the “Little Jerusalem Mission,” down on the Barbary Coast in Frisco. Owing to his belief in the efficacy of prayer alone in overcoming evil, and his impracticability, he is unpopular. He is finally convinced that the heathen lands of the Orient promise a more fruitful field for his labours. On the way to the mission for the last time he meets Freda Maxey, an entertainer in a cafe, and invites her to come to the mission and learn of the Kingdom of Heaven. He is repulsed, as Freda holds no respect for men of his type. That evening, Tom Leonard, an Australian vaudeville agent, chances into the cafe, and takes notice of Freda. He makes an offer which she accepts. Worden and Freda meet on the ocean liner, but he avoids her,' showing fear of himself, while she shoves him off to the water and rocks below. Hanson hurries back to the hut. Worden crawls from the water more dead than alive, realises the fate which .awaits Freda, and rushes to the hut, finding Hanson with Freda in his arms, leering over her. “Gus Hanson, I am going to kill you,” is Worden’s only remark, as he rushes at the Swede, and they roll in one another’s clutch outside the hut and to the embankment, where Hanson loses his hold and topples over, breaking his neck in the fall. Understanding downs; Worden and Freda realise their love, but Freda claims she is unworthy of him. The situation grows, and then comes a striking finish. There will also be shown a comedy and an ' intensely interesting Gazette. EVERYBODY’S A double-star programme will tonight be shown at Everybody’s. Wallace Reid and Myrtle Btedman, popular; Lasliy ktars, appear together on 4he screen for the first‘time in the .“Prison without walls”—-a story" 'or .prison reform, thrillingTn' the extreme, and with a thread' of ’suspense that only snaps; with a pistol shot ~ ‘in l the’ last reel. The plot gives a remarkable insight into municipal politics, anil ofthe power of the man “higher"up,” who forces his contemporaries to 'obeyfor fear of their lives. In this picture Wallace Reid plays the most forceful character of, his careen 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 the pawnbroker, and his heartstrings are broken when the grandfather, of the girl brings '* her to his pretentious home. 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 choice, and everything ends happily. A comedy and a Gazette complete the programme.