AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 31 May 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. According to American critics, Mary Miles Minter’s work in “Periwinkle” her latest drama, will- surprise everyone. This Mutual masterpiece provides her with a role of emotional power and intensity, and the dainty little artist fills it capably and with astonishing force. She portrays a girl who is a waif of the sea, brought up in a coastguard station as the idol of the place. She is garbed most of the time in oilskins, and yet without the usual furbelows and feminine sundries contrives to look her prettiest throughout the story. As a result of the wrecking of a yacht, into this life of quiet comes a rich young New Yorker, satiater with pleasure and almost tired of life. His fancy is fired by the beauty of the little heroine but his designs fail in face of the purity and absolute innocence of the gril A further episode of “The Iron Claw” will also be shown.

EVERYBODY’S. The Taihape picture-goers who look to their own Town Hall to treat them to the very best and latest films are to have a treat to-morrow. The big picture of the bill is a “Morosco” masterpiece called “The Happiness of Three Women,” described as the biggest motion picture sensation of the year. It is a spectacle of unusual proportions in every way, for not only is the cast one of the most capable that could be collected, but the story is one that will engross the most experienced of picture-lovers. The story chiefly concerns a young law r yer named Vraig, who holds the happiness of three women —his own fiancee, the loving helpmate of a bank cashier, and the wife of a jealous husband —in the hollow of his hand. In the development of the plot the conditions that arise are such that he must either give up the girl he loves, incur the wrath of the jealous husband, or send the bank cashier —an innocent man—to prison. The principal people on the cast are Myrtle Steadman and House Peters. FISK JUBILEE SINGERS. A final reminder-is given of the appearance of the-Fisk" Jubilee Singers at the Town Hall to-night. The “Singers” have become famous throughout the Australasian'-'colonies for the excellence 'of 'their unique entertainment, and their tour of the colonies has been somewhat in the nature of a triumphal" procession. The programme to-night is a diversified one, including such gems as “Steal Away, ‘Hear de-nx Bells,” and “I’m Rolling through ..an Unfriendly World,’ ’which will be rendered as only the Fisks can. The solo numbers will give the individual members of'The company plenty of scope td‘shoW : their'ability, when such items" as “ The Song of the Anvil 1 For the Sake Of' the; Past,” “The Rivers of Love,” “The Castle Gate,” “My Pretty Jane,” “Coming Home,” and a humorous male quartette “Bingo.” There are still a few reserved seats left, which may be secured at Swedlund’s Music Warehouse.