AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3334, 12 November 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

I‘-HE KING'S. TO-MORROW NIGHT. “Unexpected Places” is one of those’ pictures that will please all picture—‘ goers——for it attracts -from every a.ngle—-perfect production - beautiful scenes—a popular star——deeply interesting plot——bright_ comedy-thrilling drama and exciting situations. Bert Lytell is rapidly attaining the position held by Harold Lockwood and in this picture he is certainly seen to great advantage. Bert Lytell has only recently left the speakingstage for the silent drama. In devoting himself entirely to motion pictures this clever and popular actor finds that he has more scope for his artistic talents than on the speaking stage and considers the work more interesting as the developments in this art are rapid and fai--1-caching. B TOWN HALL PICTURES. THURSDAY NIGHT——DO‘UBLE STAR PROGRAMME. Following out their expressed intention of giving Taihape pictur-:-lovers the :best that‘Filmdom can produce, the management of the Town Hall Pictures have billed a double-star program'nle for to-morrow night. The firsty star is “The Bird of Prey,” «feattzriiigi Gladys Brockwell. ' It is a th:1"‘~3l

[tale of a. lawless land .\\'here love [reigns supreme. Action pours through “The Bird of Preyf’ like Niagara through the Royal Gorge-. The pro'duction opens with a smash and rllshes at one-hundred miles an hour speed ifor five tremendous reels. Five furious fights-——any one of them big enough to make memorable melo-drama-—are crowded into this I'enlark‘able picture. With all this there runs lthrough it all -the absorbing story of .-1 hate turned to love. The second star ‘is one of a totally different nature. “Marriages are Made-”‘ is a story of "extracting the fangs from the,Gex-man !snake—'—its unscrupulous spy system. [lt is a picture militant of all that ‘Uncle. Sam. was doing to the despic ole ;breed of Hung that infested his land. This wonderful William . Fox at-amai tells the story -of a cunningi_.- and carefully planned shipbuilding plot that was exposed, and its crafty originator brought to justice. It also his a gripping, fbreathlesg, strain of human passion, in which Peggy Hyland, that charming and beautiful artist (who created such a furore in “Annie Laurie”) has the principal character; The other films_ supporting the starsl are of equally high-class. g