AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 November 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S, The "Procession" picture was greeted with a good audience last night at the Town Hall Pictures. Owing to many country residents not yet having seen it, the picture will be added to the usual double feature bill this evening. Two Paramounts are to be ■shown.*"The Sunset Trail," featuring Margery Wilson and "The "tone Star," j with W. Russell in the lead adopted from the famous novel of the same name. Both pictures are excellent ones. Another special feature is to be shown at the Town Hall on Monday night owing to the theatre being engaged on Tuesday. The picture is another sub-deb story. "Babs Burglar" featuring the dainty screen star, Marguerite Clark. Having spent an entire year's allowance in a few weeks, upset a milk waggon with a newly acquired motor risked shooting her relatives with an old revolver, Babs temporarily subsides into the depths of despair. Her one ray of hope is her kindly father, who thoroughly understands the wild outbursts of his youngest daughter, and who writes her as follows the morning after the elopement episode: — "Dear Bab, —After thinking things over,; I think you and I would better not say anything about last night's mystery. But' suppose you bring your car to meet mc to-night at the station, and we will take a ride, avoiding milk waggons, if possible. You might bring your check-book, too, and the revolver which we had better bury in some quite spot. —Father. "P.'S. —I have mentioned to your mother that I am thinking of buying you a small car."

KING'S THEATRE. There will be shown to-night at the King's a picture, "The Silent Master" that has few equals and no superiors. It is a screen version of celebrated novel of the same name, by E. Phillips Oppenheim, and this alone assures that it will be mysterious and exciting to a degree. The picture docs full justice to the book, and Eobert Warwick gives a masterly pourtrayal of the character of Valentin, Marquis 'de Soinereuil, alias Monsieur Simon. He is an eccentric young man of much wealth, who asociates with the Parisian underworld, and uses its denizens to execute justice on wealthy oppressions of the poor whom th law does not touch. The story tells how he encounters a young American, and introduces him to his court of St. Simon. Through this the youth gets Wangled up with an apache Eobert, and involved in a murder. For this Valentin is in no way responsible. At this stage there enters into the story, Virginia, with whom Valentin falls in love, and the drama develops into intensity on to the climax. Th© story is powerfully told and wonderfully acted, the sittings being most ornate, and altogether it is a picture to see and remember. There are seven parts.