AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 21 March 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. An unusually complicated series of events takes place in "A Law Unto Himself," a five-part Mutual de luxe masterpiece, featuring Cran e Wilbur. The subject is handled in an admirable manner and carries with it something of the indomitable spirit of the West. As the Sheriff of Circle City and later as a French surveyor, Crane Wilbur proves himself thoroughly intimate with the requirements of the subject in hand, his forceful person- : lity lending vigour and tone to the vhole production. The above is supported by the sixth episode of the "Iron Claw," also two really gooc comedies and a fine scenic.

EVERYBODY'S. The story of the "Regeneration," showing at Everybody's to-night is based on -the life of Owen Kildare, the famous writer and so-called Bowery Kipling, who gave to the world in his book "My Mamie Rose" a story that has proclaimed a classic from the moment it made its public appearance. Owen Kildare was born on the Bowery. His father had died before he was born, and his mother gave her life in bringing him into this world. He was adopted by a rough family on th 6 East Side, and at seven years of age, was kicked into the tsreet. He found a place to warm himself, over the grating of the cngineroom of a big newspaper office, Next morning saw him a full-fledged "newsy." From then on, his career was a varied one. He rose rapidly to be a Bowery tough, a bartender, a saloon bouncer and a prizefighter of no mean ability. He was nearly thirty years old when he met Marie Rose Deering, whom he later immortalized in his famous book "My Mamie Rose_'' This woman brought the great change into the Kildare's life and to-day in the wonderfully sweet and powerful dramatic story of "The Regeneration" the momory of Owen Kildare and of the Mamie Rose, who had redeemed him from the life of a drunkard and outcast will be seen by; millions on the screen in this i remarkable picture production. The. supporting comedy "An Aerial.. Joyride " is a supremely humorous absurdity.

"LOOK WHO'S HERB.'} ~_V >

I Not having to follow |any pbnventional lines, Mr. Jack Waller has.been able to give full vent to his desires in organising his latest attraction. "Look .Who's Here." which he will present to local theatre-goers at the Town Hall on Tuesday next. He has taken the best from vaudeville, comic opera, burlesque, comedy, tragedy, and conservatorium music, mixed them all together, trimmed and pruned until he has arrived at the standard of excellence he set out to attain. "Look Who's Here" is a whimsical entertainment, and not the least of the whimsies is the title given to what is universally considered a high class performance. Burlesque holds a strong position on the programme as instanced by the Hungarian Band skit. "On Board the Pianola," and the Mock Court scene, Mr. Waller has reversed the order of things and takes his audience in one swift moment from the ridiculous to the sublime. The audience, laughing with abandon, say, at ! Wyllie Watson's satire of the "Fire- ' man" or at the exaggerated eccentricities of the "Chair-knee-off-skiz," burlesqued by a trio of musicians, the next moment Is -transferred to the realms of delight by a violin solo played on the instrument of Gregory Ivanoff. Interspersed are items of every fuceptable description and the whole , is strengthened bv a chorus that is for ever working, and pleasing with ragtime lays, in harmony. In all there are 25 artists, and not one is a drone, so is it to be wondered at that their refutation has carried them through a twenty week's season at the Palace Theatre Sydney, and is preceding them in New Zealand? The box plan is now open at Sherwin's.