AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 25 April 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. Helen Holmes the popular heroine of the railroad dramas is starred in this vigorous railway story produced under the Mutual banner. As usual with this class of drama the action is rapid, strong and convincing, while exciting and thrilling incidents follow each other closely throughout the five parts. A few big scenes stand out such as the burning of the township; the strike of the railway workers; the narrow escape of the passenger train and the daring work of the young linesman in ■ stopping the runaway truck. All these scenes are well done in a most convincing manner. The story of the play is keenly interesting and shows the rise of a worker to the position of manager of the B. and A. branch of the big railway company, and his determined fight to make good his ultimate success. Supported by the 11th episode of the "Iron Claw," a two-part drama, comedy, etc. EVERYBODY'S. It has often been stated that the same old faces turn up on the screen night after night) and that a little variety in this respect would be welcomed by picture lovers. This reproach cannot be levelled at the actors taking part in the star drama at Everybody's to-night, as with one or two exceptions, the performers are fresh. "One Touch of Sin" is a drama presenting a problem, whicn is worked out with consummate skill. Starting life as an innocent Eastern girl, Mary Livingstone is betrayed by the man she loves and left alone with her child to fight out the questions of" life by herself. That is the character which Gladys Brockwell portrays in her newest photoplay for William Fox. To add to the doubts and problems which beset Mary, shells forced into a marriage with another man, Watt Tabor '(Willard Louis), because he takes the blame for a crime which she herself committed. ' Theh ::; 'shß' ; niOets again the man Who : had first wTOtiged her. 'Richard 'Mallaby' (Jack Standing) demands that Tabor give up the

woman/ and a'long series of 'lights between the t'.ve 'men begins, in the end, Mary is lei't to; decide for herself. She' goes -with Tabor.