AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3463, 17 April 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

OUR PICTURES——TOWN HALL.

Lina Cavalieri. widely knnwn as “the most beatrtlful woman in F111)ope,” appears in her pol'tl'ay:ll of the Duchess Gismonda in ,Sardou’s famous play “Lovq’s. Conquest,” at the Town Hall to-night only. This is a Paramount special feature of. unusual magnificence. There are many scenes 6:’ great magnifude, one especially, that in which Gismonda is implored by the populace to keep her vow to wed the man who saved her child from death under the lion’s claws. Several thousand people were employed in this great scene. Madame Cavalieri is ably supported by Cour-tnay Foote, Fred Ratcliffe, French Lee and others, besides a very fine lion which appears in "several scenes.

THE KING-’S.

&NNocENT.”

Tonight at the Kings Fannie Ward presents the title role in George Broadhurst’s- stage success “Innocent” with such fine. artistic ability, that she even surpasses her Work in “The Cheat,” up to the present her best work. “Innocent,” strikes home with a force that lifts the characters from pantomimic existence to reality. ;[‘he scenes shift from the drowsy, sluggish life of the Orientals to the gay, picturesque, but artificial life of Paris and Nice. With this change “Innocent” is transformed from the unsophisticated little girl of the Orient to the litle butterfly of .‘:'al'isseeking the joys of an unknown world, and walking in the foiotsteps of the little girl Whose instinct is to play with the fire that has hithP.l"EO been guarded from her._ F‘ann“eWal'd is a wonder, no less, and the delicate shadings of emotion in her work give to the drama a fascination that will live in the minds of all who see her. Usual prices will as charged. .'