AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3419, 25 February 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

OUR PIC"I'URES-—TOWN HALL. “THE CAILLAUX CASE.” The notorious Caillaux ‘case has at last been put upon the“ screen. This sensational international drama which has for years fillyed column after column in the public press, will be shown to picture lovers of this town by Our Pictures at the Town Tall tonight only. Everybody rcniernbers the sensation caused a few years ago, when Mme. Caillaux entered the oflice of Gaston Calniette, editor of the Paris Figaro, and shot him to death for exposing the political and financial treaeherios of her husband.

Everybody remembers that scamlal of Mme. Caillaux’s acquittal of murder, and the. violent demonstrationsof the Paris populace, because it believed )that she had «escaped punishment through the political influence of the powerful" Minister and fhe working of the sinister secret order of which he was the high priest.

Evefybody has read of the recent exposure of evidence involving Gaillaux and Bola Pasha in traitorous relations with the German Government. Bola Pasha has been executed for treason, Caillaux, once Premier of France, now ‘lies in a. prison cell, Mme. Caillaux, whose ruthless ambition is the keynote of “The Caillaux Case.'” is an object of scorn to every French patriot. No one should‘ miss seeing this‘ astounding yet true history screened at the Town Hall tonight. It is a picture in a million, and its fascinating record of loV.e, hate, jealousy, ambition, and traitorous machinations comprise the most sensational drama of real people ever shown on the screen.