AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3380, 8 January 1920, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

‘ . moi; HALL Plc'rußEs., l To’-.‘NleH'r. A | There was a large‘ attendance at the Town‘ Hall last night to witness the . double star «programme put on «by the‘ management.’ So excellent were both ‘pictures that -people of all shades Of: tastes were delighted, and I the rcemarkl was general’ “The best series of pictures I have ever seena” 111 "The Fallen Angel,” Jewel Carmen, as the} girl who loved luxury more than hon-_ our,’ has never risen to such passionate dramatic heights as in this stirr-in.-g picture. This is especially ‘true of ‘ -‘the absorbing séenes in which she _Vconfesses‘ to her “ lever that she hasl lived as another man’s mistress and‘ then strikes him in the face when he i spurns the pure love which she offers! mm. ' C The second star “Smiles,” featuring the Bee children ‘was more than.its title, it was a laughter-maker of the very first order. “Smiles’)’ was direct-‘ 9.1 by ,Arvid E. Gillstrom, who‘ also had charge of the Lees in “Swat the F spy!” and “Tell it to the Marines.” This latest play has a touch of war in ‘ fit, but it shows the humorous side or the great struggle. It has in it air-v planes, U-boats, a new‘ radimmine invention, beside showing the methods of some of the German spies in tihse country. It is undoubtedly the best features that Jane and Katherine Lee have ever. appeared in, V ‘ This programme will be repeated tonight, and those who have not seenit should make a_ particular point of being present: they will be d'e'lighterl. AT T3l: KING'S. _ THE HIDDEN CHILDREN. The late Harold Eockwood and May p Allison take the lead in" Robert W. Chambers’ well known novel, ,“The» Hidden Children,” whichvis released through Metro as one of their big film successes at the Kings to-night_ Two women unknown to each other, in the early history of the nation, de- ‘ cide to make their babies “hidden children,” in iaccordtance with the Indian custom of giving children to foster-parents until maturity. A girl and a boy thus hidden, when informed of the truth, returned to their. people, and were expected by marrying to, bring a fresh spirit into the tribe. t Marie Loskiel, ‘hard beset by- the St. Regis linidians, girvtes hell‘ gchilfli,‘ Euan, before she dies, !to Guy Johnson, an English colonial oificer. He and x Q Mayaro, a Sagamore of the Mohicans, ‘who is Johnson’s chief scout, eake charge of the child. Jeannede Contrecoeur, wife of the commandantof the French‘ garrison at Lake George, amuses the oflicers and their wives by her gift of clairvoyance. She implores her husband not to go’ out to battle with the Indians, as she has a_ preminition that he will be killed, and that the child to be born will never know a father. But duty calls C-apltlain do Contrecocoeur, and he is slain by the

Iroquois.. Jeanne herself is captured by them, i. and taken to the stronghold of the Six} Nations at" Catherines-town. The Erie sorcerer, Amochol, is about to sacrifice Jeanne’s neW—born daughter, Lois, to the Moon Witch, ‘but she makes Lois a “hidden child,” sending her to a colonist named Calvert: Jeanne ‘is about to be killed by Amochol when she c.orrectly interprets a dream for him, and she‘ becomes the White ‘Sorcerses -of the Iroquois..'E_uan Liskiel, grown eo manhood. is given a commission in Morg+an’s Rifles as Lieutenant and Chief of Indian Scouts. Genelralf Sulllsivan wishes to crush the tribes of the Six Nations in ’ the “Long House” of the Iroquois Confederacy, and the only man who eanelead him to Catherines-town is Mlararo, the Sagamore, whom Euan brings to “the general, and the ‘Sagamore becomes the trusted messenger of the northern colonial‘ army. Lois disguises herself as a camp- ’ follower in rags to follow Euan. Mayaro and Lieut. Boyd to ClatherinesWWII: her purpose being to find her motll9!‘- Euan falls in love with her, and she returns his aifection. He VOIIIIITeBI‘S -to help her find her mother. They reach Ca’_th'erines-town in time to Save Jeanne de Contreeoeur from being executed by the Indian priests. Lois is at 18-St folded in the arms of ‘the mother, WllO has watched and waited for her all these years, and then Jeanne de Contrecoeur, having been reunited with her hidden child’ puts her hand in that of the gallant scout, Euan Loskiel, and their white bridal is completed, '7