AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 5 January 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. There will be an especially attractive and interesting programme at the King’s Theatre to-night, the principal feature being “The Iced Bullet,” a brief synopsis of which is as follows: The busy interior of a great picture theatre is the opening scene. The actors and actresses are seen coming and going, the camera man at work and the directors and other potentates of the film are all shown when William Desmond, representing an author with a scenario for sale climbs over the fence and rushes In. The story that follows is wildly exciting and most ingeniously constructed. It is a detective drama full of thrills, and written round a clever and baffling crime. However, the murderer is eventually brought to justice and the hero gets the girl of his heart Margaret Thompson is the heroine and is sweet and dainty, and the rest of the cast is competent and well selected. The general setting is good and special attention is directed at the clever sub-title -work of the Triangle studios. “Can a man be shot by another man two hundred miles away?” This is the enigma which has to be solved by the criminal Investigator in “The Iced Bullet.’ ' It is solved, and a most ingenious and devilish contrivance is unmasked. The third episode of that fascinating serial “The Secret of the Submarine,” the fourteenth series of “Gloria’s Romance,” Graphic, etc., will support the star, the whole forming a programme not to be missed.

EVERYBODY’S A powerfully attractive programme will be presented at Everybody’s tonight. There will be two big star attractions, a gazette and a comedy. The talented Japanese player Scssue Hayahawa, who, it will be recalled. was so signally successful in s ‘The Cheat” and "The Soul of Kura San” appears in a 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, Lop aka, 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 ho 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 whose devotion to each other is superior even to supernatural powers. Seenieally, "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 with *a realism which rings home its lesson to rich and poor young and old.