AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 6 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. How to dodge the income tax by living on a dollar a day is proved a dangerous experiment in "The Millionaire Vagrant," the brilliant Triangle play at the King's to-night. Charles Ray is the rich young man who goes down to the slums to find out what life is . really like, and he gets through a series of thrilling adventures in those very unlikely places. The Triangle juvenile actor proves his athletic abilities in some of the scenes, performing the' most extraordinary feats of agility and strength. The plot is a strong one, the central incident being the arrest of a pretty girl who is a fellow-boarder of the millionaire, and is threatened with a trumped-up charge by the corrupt police.. The story becomes almost tragic in these scenes, and Sylvia Bremer, the young Australian beauty who stars in the film, earns great praise /fqjfher intense emotional work. There r afe also scenics, Gazette, etc. L.. THREE STARS. /.The Three Stars will re-open tonight, when the premier attraction will be "The Stolen Paradise," in which Ethel Clayton makes a triumphant return to the screen. The plot is strong and ingenuously constructed, and full of intense dramatic moments. The hero (Edward Langford) loses his sight rescuing a mercenary beauty whom he adores. She cannot be bothered with him in this state and persuades Joan to impersonate her and marry him. Thus the paradise is stolen, for Joan has loved him for what seems a life-time. -Then his sight is restored, and once more he comes in contact with the flirt who had jilted him. Ethel Clayton Is really great in every moment.of her role, and it is one of her very best portrayals of intense emotion. Pina Nesbit as the pretty and worthless Katharine does good work, and the whole of the supporting cast is strong. The Bth episode of the "Iron Claw" and other supporting pictures will be shown. EVERYBODY'S. A double star programme is billed for presentation at the Town Hall this evening, one of which is la 5-part Essanay drama "The Misleading, Lady,' 'featuring Henry Walthafo, who, won such great success in "A Birth of a Nation." The story briefl--is as follows:—A girl leads a man to bare his love for her before jesting friends. He kidnaps her, takes her to a mountain lodge, to the floor. He domineers over her, browbeats her. She hates him, but is awer' by his overpowering mastery. His reckles daring, his brute force win her admiration. One day, goaded h his deliberate taunts, she fells' him with a blow. The woman instinct is aroused; the mothering love for the helpless comes to play. The man child is hers-to care for and a great love is born.

The other star is a William Fox Feature, entitled "The Island of Desire. "