AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 27 September 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING’S tUEATKE. The final screening of that finely acted picture ‘‘What Happened to Adele,” and the third episode of “The' Neglected Wife.” will be shown tonight. To-morrow night the public of Taihape will have the opportunity of witnessing the first Goldwyn picture shown here. The King’s proprietary hold the sole rights for the pictures produced by this noted firm, and “Baby iMine,” to be shown to-morrow night is the first of a series that will bo coming along regularly. The plot of “Baby Mine” is in no way intricate, but it is treated with an exquisite French touch, and with the French love for a delicately spicy situation, so that it becomes a fascinating story swaying in a hurricane of hilarity. Madge Kennedy as Zoie is the child-wife, matured physically, but still with the disposition of a cheerfully irresponsible youngster, who causes all the trouble by a thoughtless lie regarding an entirely innocent luncheon with her husband’s best friend. That lie leads on to disastrous results until her husband leaves her. This is tragic since she is passionately fond of her new young hubby and in order to win him back she arranges, with the assistance of two friends, to go baby-shopping. They hire a nice new one and telegraph congratulations to hubby, but the wire reaches him too soon, and a hitch occurs in the arrival of the hired baby. In trying to adjust matters before Zoie’s husband returns home they merely get things more and more tangled until they have the premises overloaded with babies, imitation mothers, real mothers, policemen, superfluous husbands and sundries It ends by Zoie telling hubby that none of the babies are hers but that if he will have a little patience. . . ? Madge

Kennedy wins us completely by her sweet and loyal disposition and the other parts are all perfectly pourtrayed. TMs picture will be shown at the Matinee. EVERYBODY'S. A double star programme will be shown at the Town Hall to-morrow (Saturday.) . Wallace Eeid, co-starring with beautiful Myrtle Stedman in “The World Apart,” is said to be the best example of young American manhood now on the screen, Tall, clear cut, good looking and powerful, he is equally popular with both sexes and with Miss Stedman the two make a combination hard to equal in this unusual and thrilling Paramount photoplay set amidst the hills and dales of the West. Eeid, who complains that the scenario writers lie awake nights devising new methods of getting killed, 'has two thrilling fistic encounters in this production, one of them being especially interesting, as .from a fight for the reels it developed into a real fight, and it took the entire force at the Moroseo studio to separate the warring factions. The whole incident is so realistic that it is impossible to tell where the picture: fight left off and he actual scrap started, but it is all shown on the screen, except where the bystanders interposed. The second star is “My Fighting Gentleman,” the latest Mutual-Ame-rican production in which William Eussell is starred. The plot of the story is laid in the South during the Eeconstruction period following the Civil War and the furnishings of the old southern Bomcs combined with the costumes of the period make the film a thing of beauty. Clever comedy scenes are introduced showing .the life of the care-free ,happy negroes with their dances and music and ready laughter.