AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 25 May 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. A Triangle drama- on a modern marriage problem is brilliantly played and produced in. "Tb« T-ast .Act/" which, features Bessie Barriscalc and Harry Keenan. Special mention must also be made of May Allen who portrays the little servant whose fortunes rise aong with those of her clever mistress. The story concerns |a young actress who finds herself at the last desperate resort. She is befriended by a woman who quietly saves her from what she had contemplated and from that moment fate takes a hand and her fortunes suddenly become brilliant. The climax is a strong one for the actress finds that the woman she was about to rob of husband and happiness is the very one who had been her benefactress. The play is splendidly produced, and contains some striking scenes from stage life. Noticeably, there is la boarding-house for theatricals where many types are seen all collected from real life.

THREE STARS. The boldness of the title, does not do any more than justice to the cleverness of the plot of the "Self-Made Widow" showing at the Three Stars' to-rfight. Alice Brady portrays t>ie heroine and is seen in what can confidently be said to be her best role to date. As a country girl who be-, lieves everything she reads, she comes to the city to be met by the wife and family of* iha man she was to elbpe with. She is in utter despair she cannot go back to town, and hearing that someone named Castleton has just suicided, she persuades a sciamp to marry her under the dead mans' name. Then she finds herself in a position of grave difficulty for the dead man was a millionaire. He turns up to find a great set of surprises awaiting him, .and the rest of the play is a rush of dramatic incident. However, all ends well. Supported by a Gazette and "The Iron Claw." EVERYBODY'S. A double feature programme will be presented at ' ' the " Town Hall this evening. The big picture 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 so-,-, ciety girl, who is forced into an engagement with a young man whose only recommendation is his : bank-book. Her idea- of a» lover has been gathered from the books of ah author,,and when later she meet? the authfr 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 Eawlinson and Neva Gerber featured in a breezy story mingling business and romance, a Paramount Gazette is also shown

FISK JUBILEE SINGERS. For very many years the Fisk Jubilee Singers.have been a household word throughout New Zealand. They were introduced into this Dominion by the late Mr. Jean McAdoo, and were recently reorganised by Professor C. A. White, who for many years travelled with the original combination as musical conductor. Since the reorganisation of the Company, they -have ' met with great success in Australia, and they have drawn crowded houses in Wellington and the other cities of New Zealand. In Wellington their opening concert was given in the Town. Hal], in the presence of their Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool, the Mayor and Mayoress of Wellington, and other notabilities. The Fisks have certainly proved a powerful attraction in Wellington. In all the years the Fisks have been appearing before the public they were never stronger than they are at the present time, this is generally admitted. The company is ten in number and every one is a first rate artist. In Miss Belle Gibbons, the leader of the Jubilee choruses, they have an artist of an exceptional character as her voice is a remarkably full baritone. It is probable that in Miss Bertha Miller the Fisks have one of the cleverest exponents of Ragtime, and in company with Mr. Sid Haynes their singing ;and gesture is simply side-splitting. The Company opens in Taihape for one night only on. .Friday, 31st May. The box plan at Swedlund's Music Warehouse, or seats may be reserved at the Town Haii