AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 31 January 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THE' KINGS. m / The reproduction of a successful and widely-read novel on the screen, is a hazardous experiment, in that the film version inevitably challanges comparison with the "original story, a handicap which not frequently results unhappily far the picture. Hall Caine’s famous story ‘The Deemster’ however, which is to be screened under the direction of E. J. Carroll, to-night, ait /the King's, (and Town Hall is claimed to emerge triumphant from this crucial test. The action of this ' powerful eight-reel ' picture involves many scones of , terrific intensity, including Dan‘s escape from Mona’s room down tic ivy-clad walls of tht elastic: the accusation, the fight on the cliffs, the murder of Evan Mylre.a, the burial af sea, the ship on fire by night, the plague, the trial, and Dan’s expiation in lexile. Skilful direction and staging have successfully reproduced the sphere of the Isle of Man, and tae author naturally comp 1 died faithful adherence to the text of his book. The price of admission is D.C. 2s, stalls Is plus tax. Children half price.

INTERNED GERMANS. WOMEN AGAINST RELEASE. SYDNEY, aJnuary 31. A protest against the release of the German internees was made yesterday 1 at a meeting of women, held in the vestibule of the Town Hall. Mrs Kate Doherty convened the meeting, and she was assisted in the organising by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Wives and Mothers’ Association and the Mosman An-ti-German League. Aid Ogilvy, of Manly, who presided, said that if the people went to sleep on this subject the Government would go to sleep also. The Germans who were being released were still dangerous. If the Government pandered to the Germans, strong opposition would be forthcoming at the next election. The Australian public was determined that returned soldiers should be -well treated, and that the Germans should be deported. Mrs. Doherty moved: “That tho women assembled —wives, mothers, and relatives of the men who fought and suffered to help in freeing the world from the menace of the German yoke®protest against the release of enemy internees while peace is still in abeyance, as the inhuman cruelties practised upon our own and British prisoners by the Germans do not justify such leniency .V A woman inquired -whether the speaker would deport Germans who had married Australian girl's? “Yes, and their wives too,” replied several. Aid Reid (Manly) said the Germans had treachery in their hearts. Whße the German soldiers were shoots down Australians we were treating the German internees kindly. Mrs. Mercer moved: “That this meeting enters an emphatic protest against the release of German internees, more especially those that Lave the vote, as the Bolshevik element in would probably receive their support.’' Chaplain Wilson, who seconded the motion, regarded the One Big Union as a menace as great as the Germans. The motion was carried unanlm^ 3 * V ' !»