AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 4 February 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE.

A dainty maiden who has been brought up in total innocence of all that love means is the central figure of “Bawbs o’ Blue Ridge,” the brilliant Triangle drama at the King’s. The role is taken by Bessie Barriscale, whose shapely form is quite easily discoverable in the quaint garment of tags and tatters that she wears in her wanderings on the mountain side: There she is discovered by a pilgrim-mage-making city novelist, and the plot begins to thicken. The little heroine soon forgets all the lessons that her mother taught her, and finds that she is a woman with a woman’s feelings. One quaint scene is where she appeals to the mountain oracle, the owl, as to whether she is to marry the handsome stranger or the old miser who has discovered that she is entitled to a fortune. The latter character is a fine piece of dramatic -work. His fears that he is to lose the happy owner of a passbook and her fortune are splendidly The photography is superlatively fine and the ■whole story one of the freshest and most appealing that has been told on the screen. A second edition of “Peggy’ ’has been applied to “Bawbs o’ Blue Ridge, the charming Triangle production starring Bessie B'arriscale as a hoydenish and mischievous girl ■who is quite as charming and naive in her fashion as was Billie Burke In “Peggy. A Ke3 r stone comedy, featuring Ford Sterling, Gazette, etc.

“THE ORIGINALS.”

There is no service in the British Empire that appeals more vo the imagination than the British Navy, and the debt we owe to the “Boys in Blue” probably will never Be adequately realised. It is on behalf of the Navy League and the "Wounded Sailors and the dependants of those who have lost their lives . fighting under the White Ensign, that an appeal is to be made by “The Originals” at the Taihapo Town Hall on Wednesday night. In addition to the satisfaction of contributing to a very deservingcause, they will have the pleasure- of witnessing a rattling good evening’s amusement. The prices are the popular ones of 2s and Is.