AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 24 December 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. “Blue Jeans” —a seven-reel Metro super-special and featuring that charming actress, Viola Dana—will be shown in the Town Hall on Thursday (Boxing Night). The story is one that will reach the understanding of everyone. “Blue Jeans” is a regular coun-try-life story replete with all the characters familiar to the farm and to the small suburban village. It carries with it the atmosphere of David Harum with the quaint'speeph immortalised in the titles. “Blue Jeans” was a rccordbreaker when produced on the stage, and the screen version, with Viola Dana as June, should duplicate its former success. The trials and tribulations of the little heroine of the story were made very real to the audiences that filled theatres whenever the play was given and the sawmill scene never failed to impart a most delightful thrill. THE KINGS. That inimitable picture drama, “The Hopper,” will be screened for the last time to-night. Those who witnessed it last night were delighted with the sensational developments and humourous situations revealed in the story. The ending is unexpected and quite satisfactory. The other pictures are also high-class. Tomorrow might a ~ special programme will he screened, consisting of an excellent star drama, with appropriate supports.

BOLSHEVIK EQUALITY. Two stories of Bolshevik rule are told by a German musician, who has been in Russia for three years, or more, and has just returned home, In response to ia demand for a war bonus, the Government allotted to the staff of the Moscow Conservatoire (now called, by the way, ‘"‘The People’s Palace of Music”) a sum of £20,000, on condition that if should be divided equally. The instruction was carried out to the letter, and the charwoman got exactly as much as the director. The second story shows, incidentally (says the London tl Daily News”) that tenors are not always so stupid as is generally believed. At one of the State theatres everybody was receiving an equal salary. One day the leading tenor had not appeared in his dressing-room a few minutes before the opera was to begin. He was discovered on the stairs selling programmes, His answer to the distracted manager’s appeal was that, as he was going to be paid the same whatever he did, he preferred the easier work, and the programme seller could take his place —with the result that the former salaries of the artists were restored to them at once.