AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 24 May 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. The star picture, “Sowers and Reapers,” to be shown at the King’s to-night is a Metro production, and is so good and so extremely attractive that it might well be termed a superfeature, although released on an. ordinary programme. The film is in six parts, and presents a star who is rapidly climbing to the top, both in ability and in the affection of picture patrons, Emmy Wchlem There is a strong appeal in the ‘ ‘Sowers and Reapers,” especially to parents. The play moreover is clean, wholesome, and full of action, and should appeal to all classes of the community. There is a naturalness and charm about this picture that is all too rare in modern productions, much of this result is brought about, not only by the excellence of the story but by the acting of the principals. None of the work seems to be acting—the portrayals are clean cut, forceful, artistic and always perfectly natural, this being particularly true of Miss Emmy Wehlen. As usual with Metro produc. tions the play is lavishly mounted, beautiful and effective scenes being used to the greatest advantage. No. 2 of the Rex Beach travel film, Gazette, and the fifteenth episode of the “Iron Claw” will also be shown. EVERYBODY’S. A double feature programme will be presented at the Town Hall to-morrow (Saturday) _ The big pieutre on the list is called “At First Sight,” in which that brightest, member of the Lasky constellation, Mae Murray, is the pivot of the story. The theme of the film is highly romantic, but thoroughly life-like, and there is a leavening of the tragic in the development of the plot. The heroine is a young society girl, who is forced into tan engagement with a young man whose only recommendation is his bank-book. Her idea of a lover has been gathered from the books of an author, and when later ‘she meets the author himself under curious cireumstences, all the elements for a highly dramatic and interesting story are realised. The other big item on the programme is a Butterfly production with Herbert Rawlinson and Neva Gerber featured in a breezy story mingling business and romance, a Paramount Gazette is also ahown