AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 20 May 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S XHEATSB. A quaint contrast is offered by the two leading characters in "The Corner Grocer," the ■World film drama. Law Field plays the old money-mas-iug but kind-hearted merchant to the life, while Madge Evans is adorable as the little orphan who is adopted hy the old man, and eventually brings him happiness. The story is adapted from the play which ran for no less than three years in New York, and is a melodrama of the really human type. The grocer, through natural shrewdness amasses a fortune and sends his son to college. When the boy gets back he has grown too lofty for any such common-place business. A clever selection of stars is a feature of "The Corner Grocer." In the first part of the play, the little 6Tphan girl is played by Madge Evans and in the second part, as grown up, she is portrayed by Lilian Cook. The two are most extraordinarily alike and suit splendidly as the one person at different stages. There are also a two part Keystone comedy, Gazette, etc. EVERYBODY'S. Patriotism will be running rampant at the Town Hall to-morrow, Tuesday, when the sensations! William Fox production "The Spy System" will be presented. Dustin Farnum, one of tbe few popular men stars of the screen, plays the roie of Mark Quanta nee, a man of wealth and social position, who undertakes the hazardous task of gaining a list of the Teutonicspies in the United States. In Beri::: ho finds it necessary to enrol himself among those 'spies before he can learn where the book containing the:r names is kept. Then he gets possession of it and sends it to the American Ambassador while he himself :s ccurt-martialled. The odd feature about this thrilling drama is that u contains all the vigour and excitement of war, without a single battle scene being flashed on the screen. Realism? that the public has had a surfeit of such views,: the.Fox< company h; ranged its story:in. such fashion f it was found unnecessary to fire a sr„■ gle shot' during the;-taking of the picture. ..-. -■■: .„■:«.*•> n.-v.to ': -.■