AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3362, 15 December 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. ' VVEDNESDAY—“THE SCARLET ROAD.” ’ ’ ‘ Gladys Brockwell is coming back to the Town Hall Picture Theatre next .Wcdnesday in a new William FOS: play called “The Scarlet. Roa.d."i Prohably no woman on the screen has had a greater succession of successes recently than Miss Brockwell. The new play that she is to appear» in-presents her in a. very sfrong and Ilig"hly’”attz-ac-tive light In it she is a woman who srtands the force of temptation mven when her affections are most deeply involved. The scene is laid in the upper Bohemian set and isintensely thrilling in its human twists and turns, There will also be shown the ninfn episode of “The Wolves of Kultur,” fe.-:.tul-ing Lem‘ Bah-d in “The Precipice of Death.‘ _

l KING-’S-—-TO—NIGHT. f _.;........ } The‘delicate beauty of Gloria Swan}son in the Triangle drznna, “The l-S(‘.ClfCt» Code,” is the feature of an labsorbing story of spies and their inEtrigues. As ithe charming young wife. i of a senator (Barney Sherry) who fails to understand her a-‘sdent ‘desire to help him in his work’. she passes through ‘tribulations due to the machinations of a band of spies. and is’ falsely accused of u’n.fait.hfulness and treason. The revelations "of the plot prme her innocence, and brings :to book the intriguers. The ‘story -is convincing. more especially as it is based -on actual facts disclosed» by ‘secret service investigations, and is exceptionally well presented. ‘The above is suppor'zed by a roaring Keystone, Gazette», ,-tc. Tomorroxv night (for o-ne night only) the peerless"Olg_ra. ?etl'ova will appear in “Silence 'Sclling,” and on Wednesday night. the picture you have been waiting for, “Mickey.”