AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATBE. The brilliant Metro star Emmy Whelen after her wonderful success in "The Pretenders" and "Her Reckoning '' needs no introduction 'to Metro audiences and when it is stated that in her latest release "Vanity," Miss Whelen is seen to even better advan-' tage than in either of the two pictures mentioned, it will be understood that this film is one of the most attractive put out this year. The Metro Corporation made thist [picture their first release of the year 1917 with the assurance that such a star in sueh an excellent offering would stamp their New Year' ; s work as fully up to the standard, and even surpassing that of the pasT, The play being Tight up-to-date, 'the remarkable display of fashionable gowns and wraps in the very latest modes will' be of interest apart from the story itself. In the big New York department store Miss Whelen as Phyllis is called upon to display to wealthy patrons the advance styles of the Avorld's leading modistes. A description of these gowns would fill the Ladies' Column of a newspaper ,sufficient to say that they have been accepted as the finest exhibtion of the dressmaker's art that has yet been seen on the screen. A feature of "Vanity" is the artistic excellence of the production and the strength of the supporting caste which includes some of the best screen actors to-day. j Paul Gordon who shared tfie honours with Miss Whelen in "The Pretenders" again is seen in a paTt that will win him further praise. This is considered Metro's best.

EVERYBODY'a An attractive programme is billed for production at the Town Hall tonight. "Mixed Blood," a Red Feather production, is the feature of the evening. The principal scene of the play is a Texas town close to, the American border. The heroine, as admirably portrayed by Claire McDowell, is a girl with a Mexican father and an Irish mother. She is beloved by three men, a Mexican bandit, named Carlos Joe Nagle, keeper of the gambling house, and "Big Jim," the Sheriff. The plot is one of outlawry and jealousy, and primal instincts are given full play. Carlos loses his good standing in the U.S.A., and carries the girl boGily to a Plague-infested town in Mexico. The Sheriff follows and brings back the girl, but Carlos dies of the plague. The supporting pictures are exceptionally good. Victor Moore tickles the fancy of all morose and mournful mortals in his latest comedy "Egged On," his humorous conceits of 20th century problems leave pleasant memories. Other good things are the latest "Australian Gazette," Para-. mount Travelogue and a Cartoon. j