AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3361, 13 December 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. O "'_'-""‘ . T-O~NIGI-IT. To-night picture lovers at the Town Hall wil witlness a doublelstar programme *5? exceptional merit. The first item on the programme is the greatest -Goe‘lll.dy, the World ‘has ever -\__seen, en.ti,tled “The Bell Boy.” _Fat'ty Arbuckle is the Bell Boy, «and a more laughable an‘('l' convulsive picture has never been screened. Fatty has laplpeared in countless pictures, but the lone under review is positively his i masterpiece. The second star is “The lFamily‘Skele=ton.,” and has quite a topical interest in view of the licens‘ing poll on Wednesday next. Drink was the imaginary curse of Billy Bate’s life. As he inherite(l his fatllcr’s millions, he thought he had inherited. his f'.lf'ner’s failing——and foolishly he tried to fight the weakness that was not his nature. And down he went, -towards destruction and oblivation, born of recklessness and feelharcliness, but, a Wom-an, a. sweet girl, was destined to checl'<—h'i-s‘.downw:lrd career through a trick. Shh lovefl Billy, her heart cached for him, and with a Wolna,n’s Wit——Woman’s in-genuity-—she battled to save him from -his own foolishness. The sixth episode of the "Railroad" Raiders” will also be screened, entitled, “The Overland Disaster." V