AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 15 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRB. For plain, everyday resourcefulness, the palm must be handed to Harry Morey, the hero of the Vitagraph drama, ‘ ‘ Richard the Brazen, ’ ’ showing at the King’s tonight only. A big munitions contract, and a mdtor smash, combined with an accidental glimpse of a surpassing beautiful girl in an English restaurant, all conspire to make trouble for Richard Williams and he is soon as ‘'Richard the Brazen,” in the thick of up-to-date adventure. America nowadays has her work cut out to supply her own munition contrasts but in "Richard the Brazen” is shown the enormous help given by U.S.A. to the Allies. One of the principal foundations of the clever plot of this play is the voyage of a big English official to arrange" for a, big gun -contract with American manufacturers. There arc also Seenics, the latest Gazette and a very 1 humorous comedv.