AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 15 March 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE,

To-night, at the King’s, there will be a splendid programme, headed by the picturisation of Hamlin Garland’s great novel. “The Captain of the Grey Horse.” Edith Storey, is the heroine, and as the partician daughter of a great Washington politician, she is well night perfect Antonio Moreno as the manly young officer whose duty conflicts so cruelly with his infatuation for the heroine is splendid, and might well have stepped out of the pages of the book. The play is remarkable for the peeps it gives of Indian life, and for the geniune emotions it arouses of sympathy and feeling for the troubles of aa dying race. There is none of the usual red painted and obviously false native Indian about the play, and the mob scenes arc almost terrible in their reality, The story concerns the attempt of a young officer appointed as a reformer to the command of a post in an Indian Reservation. He at once becomes the pivot of a whole series of plots and counter-plots, and the heroine is led to think that he is altogether in the wrong. He sticks to his guns however, and eventually wins through. There will be another instalment of “The Iron Claw,” Graphic, and “The Russians.” .

“WAR AS IT REALLY IS.”

To-morrow night, at the King’s, will be shown a scries of pictures taken under actual war conditions, entitled “War As It Really Is.” Among the 500 scenes presented are incidents showing every type of present. day warfare methods. Many new features in fighting methods are shown, such ' as a 30-inch gun in action ( the largest in the world), a number of floating fortresses used on the Yscr, armed trains and motor cars. Trench fighting as it really is forms a large part of the film, and actual fighting where the opposing sides are only 40 feet apart, will give the spectator a realistic idea of what it moans when a cable message states “heavy trench fighting took rle.ee.” Other thrill* nr provided by a picture in which 20,000 i aeroplanes- arc seen, and- Captain Thompson had the good fortune to film a battle in the clouds betweep a British and German aviator, in.which the German machine is hit, in midair, falling to the. earth killing •its’O.'pilat' Last of all confes the surrender of hundreds of Germans, who were after a French bayonet attack, forced to give themselves up by the famous “curtain of fire,” which cuts off their escape. This picture is ngtjaA ‘ fake ’ ’ but is an ,official picture taken, ‘by special arrangements with, the military authorities by Captain Donald Thompson. ‘/War As It Really - I&. V-uwill be shown at the Matinee to-morrow afternoon.

A GRAND CONCERT. TOWN HALL, MONDAY NIGHT. A really fine programme has been prepared for the great concert that is to be held on Monday evening in aid of Red Triangle Day. Performers from Wellington, Dunedin, Hunterville, and Mangaweka will assist byrendering several choice items. There is to be a sword dancing competition for which there are already entries from several amateurs.. From the entries this event premises to be a very interesting and amusing item. Miss Blomfield, Taihape’s charming danseuse, is again to the fore with two of her cleverest pupils—Miss Pattie Bagley and Miss Jean McLennan—who will give delightful exhibitions of the poetry of .motion. This fine programme s to be submitted on Monday night (St. Patrick’s Day), in aid of Taihape’s Red Triangle Day, It is hoped that a packed house will greet the capable and generous performers in their good work.