AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3371, 27 December 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTU RES.

TO—NIGHT “THE KID IS CLEVE.R."

] “Smiling George Walsh ‘begins a ‘night of romping across the screen of the Town Hall to-night. George comes here in liisnewefst William Fox vehicle, “the Kid is Clever,” a story which has a thrill and a laugh in every footof film. The athletic startakes‘ the role of Kirk White, a young American !who can."t find enough excitement in life. His father sends him abroad a ‘ship with a§motion picture company which guarantees to provide the proper amount of spice. Kirk overhears. When things begin "to happen on that ship, he thinks the cinema company isto blame. But they missed the steamer and a band. of" Mexican revolutionists are the cause of the trouble. Of course, therc’.sA a.g_irl in the plot. and she is in love with Kirk. “The. Kid is Clever” is George Walsh_’s lirst production under a new director, Paul Powell, and it moret-han maintains the I swift pace of other George Walsh pictures. In the supporting cast are] Doris Pawn, Ralph Lewis and .:\_‘Fsilri:' Wesner. . I

The eighth episode of the “Railroad Raidel's?’ entitled f‘The Knitted Cord,” which is extremely thrilling and shows Helen dropping from a bridge to the top of.a. moving train. _ She succeeds in making her’ way into Ling 'W¢:»os‘, inthc trunk into which Laidy-Me]ro.=se was placed in thelast chaptm, and from wpich she is taken by" Helen and the baggage clerk. Thrilling scenes take place in the den of Ling: Woo, from which Helen is rcscuefl by her associates, Supported by the gl'eal‘eSt Sunshine Comedy of the ho‘.ll', "Tho. Fatal Marriage-,” Gazette and C(m'u'.(]_V.

THE KING'r’S. A _ . TO-NIGHT ONLY. - - Ethel Clay-ton in “A Soul'Without W'i~ndoWs,” has just that natural bit of devilment that exists in every wholesome girl just beginning to look towards the great world and its possibilities. In -the Quaker village where she is brought up, it is the object of her mentors to repress just that "little bit, and their niethods of correction lead her to seek the great adventureiin ‘the World they have so hideously painted to ller. How she finds, romanee and love and incidentally brings sunshine into the life of a. man whose soul is warpe-I with physical sufi'ering,_ makes a cliarming story, admirably presented. Frank Mayo and,Pinna. Nesbit support the fair Ethel, Land a. totally delightful ensemble is the result of their combined efforts.