AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 19 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. The final screening of that splendid Mutual production, “A Dream or Two Ago’’ will take place to-night. It has a gripping interest which holds tne spectator from start to finish, In addition to the extensive merit of the drama, the photography reaches a high plane of excellence. To-morrow night a special programme will be shown, when “The Girl Glory,” featuring that charming Enia Bennett, will be screened. The programme will also be shown at the matinee at 2 o ’clock. THREE STARS. Patrons of the Three Stars to-mor-row night will have the pleasure of witnessing a drama of more than usual, interest, entitled “The Divorce Game.” The title is indicative of the motif of the story, which besides containing a good moral, is acted and projected in a manner worthy of the Brady Company. Miss Alice Brady takes the principal character, and her acting and interpretation possess a charm all its own. The supporting pictures are also very good. EVERYBODY’S. Everybody is going to accept “The Lonesome Chap” for ,a friend, and take him find his little sweetheart into their affections. This fy/e-reel PallasParamount picture, .showing at the Town Hall to-morrow, Saturday, is sc wholesome and entertaining it is Impossible to resist its charm. We’ve often had the story before. “Daddy Long-legs” is only one of “The Lonesome Chap’s” many brothers, but this, version of the familiar story is told with much simplicity and naturalness. You remember how the little orphan girl finds a friend in the big-hearted chap, and, after she grows up to be a beautiful young woman and keeps on adoring her benefactor, he just won’t see that she’s as much in love with him as he is with her and gets to feel,ing awful lonesome until she takes matters into her own hands and shows him what a big stupid he’s been? Welly it’s all in the picture's! And House Peters and Louise Huff fit into the two parts perfectly.. “The Show Down,” a Bluebird production, promises to be equally as good. The scenes in this picture incident to the operations of a German submarine in the Pacific Ocean will provide sensational features, and the rugged life of the shipwrecked castaways cn a verdant island will show how human nature is brought into its true light in the melting pot of experience when all hands get “back to the primitive.” “DADDY LONG LEGS.” TOWN HALL, TO-NIGHT. At the Town Hall, to-night, (Friday, 19th inst.) will be presented Messrs, J. C. Wiliamson’s phenomenal success “Daddy Long Legs,a real sunshine play. No play has been mqre popular in the Dominion of recent years. ( So great has been the success of Jean iWebstor’s ;play t,hat two companies have been presenting it in Australia, There will be a new “Daddy Long Legs” and “Judy” on this occasion in Mr. J. B. North and Miss Bargrove but it will be the same “Daddy Long Legs” as before. Mr. J. B. North played the title role when it was first pro,duced in the United States and came, out under engagement to J. C. Williamson, Ltd. Little need bo said of the play itself, because everyone knows how New Zealand took it to its heart on its previous visit. During present visit a more extensive tour of the Dominion will be made. The box plan at Shtcrwin’s.