AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 5 September 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S THEATRE. Marriage and its problems form the •main threads of the plot of "Husband and Wife,” the World Film drama, to be shown at the King’s to-night. 1 The cast is of quite unusual strength. Ethel Clayton is in the lead, supported by Holbrook Blinn, Montagu Love, Gerda Holmes, Dion Titheradge, and little Madge Evans, Ethel Clayton is unsurpassed in the role of young bride, and in this story she portrays a girl who has married a man who has to live on his salary. Her tastes are expensive and she has no sense of the value of money, and he has not the courage to deny her anything. The result is inevitable, He begins to speculate wdth the bank funds. The young wife is loved by a young and wealthy man who however plays the game, and he comes to the rescue in dramatic fashion. Madge Evans as the child of the two who have drifted into such perilous courses, is bewdtehing as she always is, and Dion Titheradge as the brother of the weak husband gives a fifie portrayal. settings aAd photography are of genuine excellence,, and the whole drama represents high water mark in production. There several supports to the above.

EVERYBODY'S. . ■ Vtf There are many types of love stories, but there is in “Virginia’s- Secret," showing at Everybody’s to-night, more entertainment and sweet touches of romance than in any type oif love story yet screened. Keen and incisive in character study, logical and lifelike in plot iand invention and development, “Virginia’s Secret’’ stands sturdily on its own merits. It is vigorous, frank and emotional, in the best sense of that_ much overworked word. The story is told with utter sincerity, nothing exaggerated, nothing suppressed, the whole irradiated with the spirit of hope and high purpose. Other interesting pictures make up an excellent programme.