AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 4 January 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. Can a woman tread the primrose path, of folly and not pay the penalty? This is th« -heme of “The Law of Compensation,” a select picture featuring the incomparable actress, Norma Talmadge, showing at the Town Hall tonight. Chiffons, laces, pearls! These are part of the enormous wardrobe belonging to Norma Talmadge. “I love them,” she says, “A woman, of course, must dress according to her individuality, but for me I want everything like this—soft, dainty clothes in pastel shades—nothing vivid or glaring. You can do so much with them, only they are as fragile as flowers. I haven’t a favourite frock, because they fade and never last long enough, but I do have this favourite mode.” In “The Law r of Compensation?’ Miss Talmadge wears an unusual number of original gowns. A comedy and a Gazette complete the programme.

THE KINGS. Norma Talmadge is the leading figure in “The Law of Compensation” and has a dual role which she carries off with her usual unfailing artistry.. She is undoubtedly one of the few first-class emotional actrefses of the film, and in whatever play appears she is sure to make fresh admirers. The Law of Compensation is "a .Select production and is consistently good throughout. It is a story within a. story, a difficult method of narrative,, and the success in this play is therefore all the more complete. Norma is a young married woman who finds the ordinary round of life rather irksome and commences to play with fire. Her father hears of the threatened disaster and hurriedly visits her. Then he tells her nf the tragic story of Tier mother, who had trodden the same path of folly and paid the penalty of all who flout the laws of compensation. The effect of the story on the young woman makes a dramatic climax to a play of fine dramatic power. There are good Supports. ’*