AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3417, 23 February 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

OUR PICTURES.

TOWN HALL. There will be another fine Paramount attraction at the Town. Hall tonight, when the Our Picture Company will present Jack Piekford with. Louise Huff in “Mile-a-Minute Kendall,” a story of the idle son of a rich man who is disowned and is redeemed by love. It is said to be a splendid story in which excitement, adventure, and pathos closely follow on each other’s heels, keeping the interest of the onlookers riveted to the screen from title to end. There is abundant comedy, and by w r ay of contrast there are several highly dramatic scenes all of which combine to make the picture one of signal merit. Also on the programme is the latest Mack Sennet comedy, “The Battle Royal,” a good slap-up laughter-maker that will tickle the risible faculties of both young andold.

The results of the count of the votes in the Baby Beauty Competition arc published on page one of this issue. Mr A. Duncan, whose little son Ronald won easily with. 709 votes, has requested that the prize be transferred to the second in order of merit, i.e., No. 2 (Master Neal), who scored 81 votes.

THE KING’S.

“THE FORBIDDEN CITY.”

NOKMA TALMADGE. San San, daughter of a Chinese mandarin, loves John Worden, Secretary of the United States Consulate. The mandarin, however, has other plans for her. In order to reinstate himself in the good graces of the Emperor, ho plans to give San San into the harem, and while Worden is away in another part of the empire on business, he takes her before th e ruler. The Emperor is greatly attracted by San San, but on discovering that she is a mother hi s rage knows no bounds. He craftily conceals his tru e "feelings from San San, however, and tells her that she may go on her way. Overjoyed, she starts to leave through*a long hall hung with heavy tapestries, but she never reaches the other end, for the Emperor’s soldiers thrust their spears through the curtains, and little San San falls dead 1 .

Years later Toy, her daughter, escapes from China to Manilla, where sh e serves in the Red Cross hospital. She meets and falls in love with Lieutenant. Halbert. Halbert’s guardian i s none other than John .Worden, now the United States Consul at Manilla. When he learns of the marriage contemplated by Halbert lie forbids it, and sends him away on a diplomatic mission. Later ho is taken seriously ill, and Toy nurses him back to health. It is then that Worden discovers that Toy is his own child, and recalling the tragedy of his own early life, he changes his mind, and gives Halbert permission to marry the girl of his heart.

A groat L.TC.O. comedy., 1 ‘ Props, Dro’-= and Flops.’ ’ "A Rose of Paradise, ’’ a sequel to “Tess of the Storm Country, ” is billed for Wednesday.