AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3385, 14 January 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PIC"I"U'I{-E S.

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When a great writer produces a new masterpiece the whole reading world rushes ‘*o 30* Copies -of it. A like feeling comes when we speak of William Emu-.n‘s lzmxst photo play. “The Rainbow Trail.” which will be screened at th: Tl‘-v;:1 Hill this evening. This picture is '?.nothcl' of the famous Zane Grey stm'i<.‘.< and is "he sequel to the “B‘idel's of the Purple Sage,” Mr Farnum is again seen as Lassiter, the feared rider of The range, and -the terror of the Utah border. Indeed, this sterling player porti*3.ys two roles in “The Rainbow Trail,” that of Lassiter and of “Sll-3li’oi-d, who searches the: mountains for the girl he loves A good supporting programme has been selected: making the whole an entelii'ainnlent which should still further increase the pmjulm-it_v of the Town Hall Pictures. MR LOGAN, U.S.A. On Friday evening next the favourite daredevil stunt artist and man of the West, Tom Mix, will he presented in his masterpiece, “Mr Logan, U.S.A._.” in which the brilliant star portrays the role of a Secret Serviceman. Book your seats for both these» excellcnt prognzimmes at Pratt/8.». ’Phone, 254. 3 ’ AT THE KINGS.” ’ “TI-IE SENTIMENTAL 81.-OKE.” TONIGHT. ' ‘ Mr C. J, Dennis.’ “The Sentimental" Bloke” which is to be presented at the King’s Theatre to-night under theaegis of Mr E. J. Carroll, has many’ things to comzmalld it, apart from the things that only iappeal to palates sensitiveness to the:-subtle favours! of‘ literature. It is a story that uplifts without preaching. It is simple, efiectivennatural, sweet; and quite convinc' ing love story. It appeals directly tothose better feelings of the human heart that run. deepest. It is a story for young and old, for folk of all tern~ perament and dispositions and circumstances_ And the film expresses‘ the story perfectly. It is the one big film made in Australia, the only one i~ that is big in the big way The acting V is so remakably good, that it never‘ seems like acting. The atmosphere‘ and local colpurs are correct beyond’ all possilbility of cavil. It is anachievement, this film. It thrills and’ stimulates like an ideal tonic. It gives new life to hope long v.-eary, to faith long ‘dormant. The poem in‘ speech is still a poem of photo-graphy. If sterling worth and purity count for anything, if genuine human interest is the thing that speaks to you, here isithe finest film that ever came to the ‘Dominion. Special appropriate music raccompanies the production, which iwill be presc-nted on :2. scale in keepling with its importance. ‘ i The most serious movement sub--1 stantially financed to place the moving pieturg industry in the Antipodes on a ‘plane to rank with the very best English, American, and Continental ciniema productions, has been made by {Mr E_ J. Carroll, and it is claimed that {in “The Sentimental Bloke,” he has ‘already perfected one great film, of [which the author of the. famous poem, 'O. J. Dennis, says:——-"The fidelity 'with which the written story has been converted into :1 visual narrative, in eight acts, is amazing to me. The 'difliculties I had foreseen have been lovercome admirably, and turned into ipicture triumps, for which your producer and artists are mainly responisiblefi’ i The Sydney Sunday Times, Ist ]OCtober, 1919, says:——“lt is a perfect ivitalised representation of one of the .most delightful love stories ever Writlten. America. has sent us some splenidid pictures, but here we have Ausltralia getting right. away from the {Americans convention, and making one ‘of the noblest film-pictures, the world. ‘has yet enjoyed. It is a picture for everybo<‘:_v, and there is not a foot ofl it at which the most captions moralist or puritan could cavill. And yet it does not prose or preach. The story unfolds itself naturall:»'——The Bloke and Doreen are true as fresh air and open water. This is the picture event of the decade. It helpstoheal old sores of war, to restore faiths hard tried, to ;point. men !back through sheer humanity. to God.’-' The box plan and day sales is at Swendlrun<l's» Where it is strongly advised to .book Sn‘?!-I‘-S t 0 ‘avoid crush and inconvenie-1309.. Ml’ ‘Drake. My Carrollg’ I~epl'eS{‘.DlC.'ltlV'e is :here making necessary 3Tr3nsem-9n£s- ,