AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 11 October 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

( ' KING'S THEATRE. The 'final screening of "The Dormant Power/' featuring Ethel Clayton, also' "The Neglected. Wife," will take place to-night. • ><'■ To-morrow night another of the famous Goldwyn productions will be: shown, entitled "The Spreading Dawn,'' All Goldwyn pictures are of the highest order. A picture orchestra will be in attendance. A brief synopsis of the star picture is as follows: — Jane Cowl makes her debut as a Goldwyn star in '' The Spreading Dawn" and although her reputation on the speaking stage was great :it must be much greater after this appearance on the screen. Jane Cowl is shown as the elderly aunt who threatens to disinherit her neice if she dares to think of such a thing as love. In response to the girl's pleading the old lady produces a diary kept when she was young. The picture then follows .the story of 'that diary through an absorbing series of incidents showing how the aunt had loved, and doubted and been rescued from a burning theatre by her lover, whom she then married. At dawn, the day after the wedding he has to join his regiment. After a long absence he returns and has hardly greeted his wife when a message arrives and he leaves her post haste to go to the "other woman" who had caused trouble before the two had married. The devoucmcnt is as unexpected as could possibly be and the whole picture is a masterpiece from every point of view. EVERYBODY'S. "HASHIMURA TOGO" Adapted by Paramount from Wallace Irwin's Japanese schoolboy stories, "Hashimura Togo" is as quaintly attractive and entertaining a picture as one could wish to see. It has all the qualities of an excellent screen play, combined with a story thai is novel and interesting. The settings are exquisite and so far as they suggest the "atmosphere" of Japan, their authenticity is as unquestionable as the insight which Sessue Hayakawa, in the role of Togo, gives us into Japanese character is clear and reliable. Though there is much in the play that makes for' laughter, its underlying theme deals with the high conception of honour cherished by the Japanese, who until comparatively recent times were trained to regard hari-kari as a noble expiation of crime, or blotting-out of disgrace. Another big item on the same programme is the big patriotic picture "Her Country's Call, with dainty little Mary Miles" Minter, as a mountain elf, who lives with her dad, high in a cabin on the mountain side, in a most interesting story.of the hatred of one bitter man for the flag of his country, and the events that follow thereafter.