AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 20 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING-’cJ jI'KBATES. “THE GIRL GLORY,” Enid Bennett, the Australian star who Is now.Mn the first rank of American film artists, is the heroine of “The Girl Glory, 5 ’ the fine Triangle drama. The story is by Gardner Sullivan, one of the cleverest writers of filmdom, and is a likelike and human piece of work. ‘ ‘Glory ” is a mischievous and reckless girl who is worried by her grandfather’s one serious failing—he likes a glass too much. She is at her wit’s end for a method of dealing with the old man’s weakness, and finally conceives a scheme which is daring enough for anything. It leads to her emerging from the publichouse of the little town, with all the signs of intoxication, and the ultra goodygoodies of the place are much concerned. However, the plan from its very impudence is an unqualified success, and the story ends in the way all stories should. The photography is splendid and once more the decorative sub-titles with their neat and clever wording arc strong features of the production. The above is supported by a National Patriotic picture, entitled “Everybody’s Business,’’ which gives you some idea of what is taking place in England at present. The screening of this will take place at about 9.45. Special music accompanies , the picture. There is also the Gazette etc. Truly a programme of exceptional interest, THREE STARS.

Cleverly adapted from the French drama “The Divorce Game” trill make a sensation on its screening at the Three Stars to-night only. Alice ETady as the piquant American girl married to the lovable but altogether irresponsible French Count, is seen in the finest role of her career. The story has a genuinely original plot. The young couple, loving each other devotedly becomes desperately pressed for money, and finds that by being divorced there is a chance of turning into cash and money of their marriage settlement. Florence, however, as soon .as;her husband leaves the house as a result ofhis .preluded, infidelity goes veiled to sec hipi ; as,, often, as she can, and is of. course ,digcOy ; ered. The cast deserves spccia / l.lipen(iQn, 1 ipen(iQn,- .Marie Lavarre as Fi-fi being yery alluring and looking quite able to cause all the deadly mischief shq does as the one-time object, ,of t the young husband’s affections. ■ The “Iron Claw,’’ Gazette, support the above,, , : EVERYBODY’S. Everybody is going to accept “The Lonesome Chap” for.a, friend and take him and his little sweetheart into their affections. . This five-reel PallasParamount picture,' showing at the Town Hall to-night, (Saturday), is so wholesome ‘and ’entertaining it is Impossible to resist it's charm. We’ve often- had the'story .before. “Daddy Long-legs” is only one of “The Lonesome Chap’s” many brothers, hut this version of the familiar story is tola 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 feeling awful lonesome until she takes matters into her own hands and shows him what a big stupid he’s been? Well, it’s all in the pictures! 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 i on a verdant island will show how human nature Is brought into its true light in tlie melting pot of experience when all hand* get “back to the primitive.”