AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3391, 21 January 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. ' - To-night you are faced with two of the most. fascinating star pictures ever shown on the picture screen. The first picture features that clever aerebatiel star, George Walsh, in “Never Say Quit.” . When Reginald Jones weeps, at his tough luck. the audience at the Town. Hall will be kept in a continual rdar of lau-ghfer. “Never Say Quit,” the William Fox comedy, which will be shown tonight for the fix-st time, will be the cause of it. Unlucky 13 and the jinx do not leave the hero one moment of peace.

Jones naafig the fatal mistake of being born on" a Friday, the thirteenfh, in a house on 113th streot. So thirteen keeps tagging at his heels, putting him in the way of stl'ong-3.1-m: men, and’ keeping him out of fhe way of a fortune. He is always getring into. hot water, and the hotter the water he-

comes the funnir.-1' becomes the picture.

Then comes the great William FOX masterpiece, “Kul"ur,” featuring that beautiful actl*t?.':'S, Gla«‘»_\'.; BTOORWCH. A drama of love, scandal, and politics in the senéatiox-eaNl drama of the daring of an Emperor; "royal courts Of the Central Powers; a startling disclosurfgsié of the infl-igxms '::‘2a.t launched ‘the War; she spurned an 013 Emperor for the . love of :1 young spy; tho ss:ory.bf ar

beautiful Austrian Countess who gave her all for ‘love and’ democracy; the drama of an‘Empcror’s mistress, and of a crime that rocked the world; she was an ‘Emperor’s favourite, yet she died for democréfiv; a daring exposure "Of scandals and crimes in the; royal ‘courts of Berlin and Vienna, an aston’ishing revelation of {he Teuton plot to rape democracy. There is not a moment throughout this wonderful film that does not throb with tense dramafic action. . v

THE KING’S. .A M“, ‘ “BEAUTY AND THE ROGUE.” MARY MILES WINTER. To-night at the K'ing’s T-heatre Mary Miles Minter will be ‘seen in her latest success, “Beauty and the Rogue.” Roberta Lee (Mary Miles Minter) is a. sympathetic girl who believes ‘in the “uplift.” Her father (George Periclafc) is a rich oil magnate Who hats

himself ‘he overruled when Roberta fisists that he employ “Slippery” Bill 4‘ Dorgan (Orral Humphrey), an ex-jail bird, as his gardener. “Slippery,” gets his chance and loots: the Lee Home, stealing among other things, a brooch. Roberta visits her old nurse in the country, where she meets Richard Van Stane (Alan Forrest), who is also in the country on business for her father. Van Stone is travelling incognito and -d~oesn’t know who Roberta is {but falls in love with her instantly. “Slippery” in the meantime leaves the city and tries «the country life_ He runs across Van Stone and sells him’ the brooch in order to get the price of a slquare mjeal. At a. dharity entertainment “Mlle. Tiptoe” dances and Richard presents her with her own bjroocih. Assuming that he is the burglar, she has him arl'e~sted. The mjsunclerstlanding is later cleared up to the -sa.tisfia.ct*ion of everyone when “Slippery” is: finally caught in a p:-I:.~ty that intended to kidnap Roberta. and hold her for ransom. The blame for

the Lee -robbery is -taken off of Rich- ._ ardig shoulders, and to s'ho‘W him that Q she is sorry for suspecting him, Roberta gives {him her hand. This is q'uite a. re'fll3shin«g storir, well off the iyeatenx track and has created a fav- ' ourable impression wherever shown.

‘ THE CO—RESPONDEI\".I‘. The great nhwspaper story, the CoRespondent, which has been secured :the King’-51 for Thursday night, comes here héraldlcd by very favour-‘ able comments from other sentres. Wilfred Lucas, who plays, opposite charming -Elaine I-lammerstl.-in, is now in Australia producing "The Man from Kangaroo.” The story 55 highly enteruaining and shows the znethods of the “Yellow Press” in securing evidence in society divorce ceases.

THEY’RE OFF.

To lovers of a. good racing story, the

announcement that ‘Enid Bennett’s

. great tfiiumph “They‘;’re Off” has ‘been ‘secured by thlé. management of the King"=s‘, will meet with general satisfaction, and the enterprise that has secured -such a -featuna will be amply

compensated by -liberal patronage_ The , race scenes are the big points of the play, to say nothing of a romantic love theme which winds itself throughout plot and Counter-plot. Watch this ‘column for further announcemnntg in ‘the near future.

, FIGHTING IN INDIA. §'I‘RON GFORCE O-F‘ TRIBESMEN. ' CAUSE CONSIDERABLE CASUALTIES. , Received 9.35 a.m. 7 BOMBAY, Jan. 19. « A Derajat column had a fierce bat-Q‘.-le on the 14th with 1000 Wana Wazirss, who were reinforced by Musa Khan Fazald-ai, who were determined to prevent our passage through the Ahnaitongi Pass. This narrow defile is ‘less than 50 yards wide, with precipitous Cliffs on each side, through which the river Tankzam flows.‘ The defile had to be cleared for the passage’ by a long‘ column. of mules and camels. The column moved at dawn and came under heavy fire in clearing the road, but eventually succeeded. Fighting continued beyondthe pass, the enemy -attacking fiercely on three sides. Fighting lasted for severalhours, but the coming darkness and the stubbornness and strength of the enemy finally made it necessary’-for our troops .to bivouae two miles above the pass. Our casualties were liavy. V ,