AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3392, 23 January 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. SATURDAY. _ Miss June Caprice will be seen at the Town Hall Ilhait Saturday in William Fox's latest photoplay, “A camouflage Kiss.” In it ‘Miss Caprice plays. theepart of a young girl who becomes en'ga_gk:d~ to a man bec’aTu'se- her brother-in-‘law is a producer of pork, but Hoover’s “E-at less meat,” puts a crimp in the pork business. He learns that a man he knows. is doing well in the manufactui-e of beans‘ for commercial use. So he proposes a combination of pork and geans. With the aid of the brother-in-law ,tll‘e pork man‘ becomes engaged to June. But he's very shy; He makes "a bad move‘. He gets another man to steal a kiss from June in the dark, hoping to leave the *im.pro.~seion. with June that he had been lbrave enough to steal the kiss. When, ihmvever, the man kisses June in the ;daylight, June knows right away that it is this same kind of a kiss she; had }l'eceived in the dark_ This. brings 011 a. complication. Pork and beans and love get nicely mixed. But in the end they are all separated a.nd‘someWh%_lt refined. Miss Caprice has‘an‘€'XCoH€i’ll3 supporting cast. A Sunshine comedy

of the u»s~uu‘l high oraér of mirth supports «the big fleature, and these two picturrest probably provide more mirth in the one progxamme thahn Hie Tai-' haape public has yet been -providkefi with. The 12th episode of The Railroad Raiders advances this thrilling serial another chapter. “A Fight for a Franchise” is -this number's titlg. It holds the interest we]! and treats of how a name in a contract was“ changed by Helen. and an associate, thus frustrating a villianous attempt to hinder a deal for the building of a. railroad. from going through. '

AT THE KING'S.

“THEY’RE OFF.” What a. nice change, after so mu-ch’ war dope» it will be to see a really first-Class racing story, a. real “Nat: Gould“ night at The King’s Whlen Triangle present their great feature‘"l‘hey’re Off."’ Racing after all is New Zaealalnd’s national sport and thekeen excitement worked into a picture of this sort comes as a welcouie tonic t 0 the jadild picture patron. The great race scenesare» said to eclipse even those in “Micky” and “The Whip.” It is .to his regretted that” such a feature as this» can only be booked for one night, but th;is,featurois booked Well ahead by enterprising‘ showrnicn. ‘A New York multi-mil-li~on-aire, touring in the Southern States, is struck by the extraordinary beauty" of a splendid homestead, and -his pretty daughter is =en-raptur-ed with it. The aristocratic young owneryhaught‘ily declines to sell, ;but by manipula~ tion of the markets, he loses his money, and the millionaire has his" way. The young man has. to retire to» the stableg of this -property,‘ and sees the hated northTerners- living in his house A .pretty love story develops and the :h’:ro,ine manages by a clever trick to get. her father into a bad str-ategio. position through his love of‘ horses. There is a race which aoutdoes in thrills any past effort. of film mak-!-rs, and Enid Bellneth’s horsemanship is genuinely sueprb. Rowland Lee, a handsome Triangle artist, -is the hero, and is’ well-night perfect, whill: two‘ other famous actors, Melbourne’ McDowell, and Walt Whitrrian, have. supporting roles. The scenes in t-hi: mansion are of real nlagnil'icence, and the photography isfine. This is the best play «ever made sby the pretty Australian artist.

THE BRAND. REX BEACH. . “The Brand” is a ‘strong dl'anla——one of the best Rex Beach has yet turned out——and it is -particularly suited to screen requirleme-n-t:<_ The scenes are laid in the frozen wilds of Alaska, where men and women love and hat}: with equal vehemenoc, and; impulse governs largelir ffileir actions. The plot is both vir-ile and vivid and works up to a climax that is rarely equalled for intensity and dramatic value. The story is Worthy because Rex Beach knows Alaska as few men do, and thescrecn interprertation is notable on account of the remarkable fine perform-amce-s of the three principals, Kay La-urell. Russell Simpson and Rob‘-Jrt ' McKim. The story contains no petty‘ themes, and the author sways the peo-. ple of the North by primitive [emotions aroused in their highest pitch. Particular .me.ntion must be m'a"cle of the photography -of the wondrous scemes of beauty and snow covered wilds. The box plan for The Brand is now open at Swedlun~d’s, _where it is mstrongly advisable to book sleats, or to escape the crush ‘attend the matinee. ‘ CHARLIE CHAPLIN. ~ ‘As a second star on Saturday Charlie Chaplin will be seen at The King’sin "Shanghj:ed.”t Just imag~ll'le Charlie» being “Shanrg.hied,’r‘ why one laughsat the thought, needless to say it is ' -a subject that Charlie makes 31‘, Welter of and laughter reigns. s7.l’p?eme. Send the children to the matinee.‘