AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 30 March 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. “THE WHIP.” To-night at the King’s there will be shown that sensational drama “The Whip,” which has run for years in London, and has been translated into all the modern languages, and been picturised in marvellous fashion.' It has six groat stars instead of one, of whom three may be mentioned for specially good work: Alma Hanlon, Irving Cummings and Dion Titheradge. The great spectacle for which the stage version is famous is outdone in every way. The train wreck is wonderful, A real train costing £SOOO dashes into a standing car and smashes it into fragments after telescoping it in a grinding rattle. The hunting scenes are real runs put up by one if the smartest of modern packs, and thousands of pounds worth of horseflesh are seen negitiating the jumps in style. The horse show with its costly turnouts, trotters and pacers, huge ringside enclosures, and grandstands filled with beauty and fashion, is another realistic piece of artistry. The race scenes are triumphs of the camera, and were only possible by arrangement of a great number of machines. There will in addition to the above bo another episode of the “Secret of the Submarine,” Gazette, etc. On Monday night that super-release “Transgression,” will be shown. This picture has been received with the greatest appreciation wherever shown, and Earlo Williams, who takes the leading character, has achieved an undoubted triumph. The supporting pictures are above the average. EVERYBODY’S. Violet Merserau’s seventh Bluebird “The Little Terror,” to be shown at the Town Hall to-night, is declared to be one of the best features Miss Merserau has furnished to the Bluebird series. To reflect circus incidents

essential to the early scenes in the photoplay a travelling show was halted on its tour and detained until a series of thrilling- episodes was recorded—the progress of the performance to a. thrilling accident in which an essential plot required that a trapeze performer should fall to his counterfeiter’s death. Then the scenes are relegated to everyday? surroundings of affluence, for the circus waif gets into society, andy; there sprinkles the proceedings ydth an abundance of natural comedy. The Lasky production for the week is the “Cost of Hatred,” in which Kathlyn Williams and Theodore Roberts costar for the first time. The story is one of intense interest, and holds the spectator spell-bound from start to finish. A Paramount, Gazette and a comedy complete a programme well worth seing.