AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3383, 12 January 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THE KING-’S. ' MADGE KENNEDY IN “FRIEND HUSBAND.” Madge Kennedy will be seen to» night only at The King’s, in Gold Win’s immense photo-pllay, “Friend Husband.” The story is unusual, and contains many humorous and‘ thrilling‘ situations. As a young girl who has “ideas” not strictly conventional, Madge Kennedy in “Friend Hus-i band” is a dangerous little piece of at-» tnactive feminity. The girl in the story doesn’t believe in marriage, but forced to make a clrciee to gain a fortune left her under an eccentric will, she just reaches -:-*:.t and grabs the first‘ thing in -trousers that happens along, deciding to make the best. of a bad job.--All sorts of ‘interesting complicait-ons ensue. Rockliife Fellcwes is a happy; selection‘ forlthe part of the husband. He has a reliable knowledge of farce‘. value, ‘and with his contagious smile makes -a huge success of the part, theoreticallrarrcl literally. l “THE HELL CAT.” - TUESDAY ONLY. In “The Hell Cat,” Geraldine Farrar puts up as solid a fight against the bad man of the ranges as is usually seen outside a prize ring. She shoots with 03. real -six-shoot-er, rides a broncho_. and otherwise deplorts herself ina.’ manner foreign to What is expected of a songbird. One would think she had been educated on the prairie, and performing every-day stunts to the manner born. The story is thrilling and absorbing, and is set richly land artistically, with sweeping \Vest. ~ ‘ 4 SENTIMENTAI: BLLOKB.

BOX PLAN NOT/V OPEN.

E. J. Carroll presents the screen‘ classic “The Sen’cimen"La.l Blake” at t_he King’s .on Wednesday. The sfurg Sf “The‘ Seritimental Bflvokefl’ and his Doreen Ithrilledi Austmliva; ‘HIO2I Mr.

' Dennispwrote and published it, and the thrill Went far "afield. The book was a. tremendous success in Great ; Britain, and respectable American publishefrs made haste- to steal it. Australiari sales went speeding up into tens of thousands, and the steady Australian sales continues. The book had :1 great ' vogue in New Zealand from the start, ' so that the film version of the story is !assured of its welcome. The pl.-Lyers and the producers ‘have done the thing l exceptionally well. Here we have the I real Bloke and the very Doreen. Local. colour, atmosphere, properties, incidenltials, all are perfect. It is :1 vivid. heart searching, normal. eharnlir~g story of simple love, the love that‘; lovcrcomes difficulties and triumphs lover death. Nothing namby-pamby about the story, nothing forced or und {true to life, nothing merely improving ,or genteel. And the story has la. speclial appeal to us because it was very I dear to the hearts ‘of those Anzacs who R fought with our own sons through the strain and terror of the great war. ‘ I “The ‘Sentimental Bloke” will commence its season at the King’s shortly, and will -be repeated thereafter every evening at eight, and every afternoon at 2.30 under the direo.tinn of E. J. C:1“1'o1l. The box plans are rapidly filling‘ at SW<2Lllund’s, - - -J