AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 4 January 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE.

New York’s colony of artists and literary workers is the scene of Square Deal,” the World Film play screening at the King’s to-night only. The drama is full of strong situations, its most powerful incident being the success of a bold experiment in lidding a friend of his utterly frivolous and worthless wife. Carlyle Blackwell is the hero and acts with his usual charm. June Elvidge is an altogether lovely heroine, and is rapidly making a place for herself in the topmost ranks of film stardom. Muriel Ostriche, as the young society girl, who is thrown by a designing mother into the arms of a man she does nor really love, is dainty as always, and the whole cast is good. The photography in Washington Square is particularly fine and there- are some splendid scenes throughout the film of fashionable New York life. Onepiece bathing suits are seen in plenty in the fashionable indoor bathing resort in which one of the sensational incidents occurs of “A Square Deal.” This is the narrow escape from drown ing of one of the leading characters “A woman brave enough to buy independence with hard work” is the description applied to June Elvidge as the girl heroine of “A Square Deal.”

EVERYBODY’S A powerfully attractive programme will be presented at Everybody’s tomorrow (Saturday), There will be two big star attractions, a gazette and a comedy. The talented Japanese player Sessue Hayahawa, who, it will be recalled. was so signally successful in “The Cheat” and “The Soul of Kura San” appears in n stirring adaptation of Robert Louis 'Stevenson's “The Bottle Imp.” This production was actually photographed, in the South Sea Islands. The story' relates the adventures of an impoverished fisherman, Lopaka, who desires to marry a girl of royal blood. The' enchanted bottle which plays so important a part in the action grants every wish of its possessor but holds a'terrible menace, for if one dies with it in his possession he is eternally doomed to perdition. Through all this weirdness there runs the story of a romance between this fisherman and the girl of royal blood whoso devotion to each other is superior even to supernatural powers. Scenieally, ‘ ‘ The Bottle Imp ’■’ has few, if any, equals, and it can safely be said that its natural settings are rivaled by few which have ever appeared on any program. The story of William Fox masterfilm “Hypocrisy” is grounded on just what its title might imply. The role of Virginia Trent as taken by the talented and beautiful Virginia Pearson unfolds a powerful expose of the hypocrisies of so-called high society realism which rings home its. lesson to richband poor young and old.