AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3472, 28 April 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

THE KING'S.

“A BACHELOR’S WlFE'.’’' ‘ “A Bachelor’s Wife” gives Mary Miles Minter a chance to create a new type. sné appears as a. farefree col~ leen, in long curls and a costume that breathes, of the bogs and shamrocks among the glens and geese and thatched cottage of Ballyhannock, Ireland. She comes to New Yorli, a. resolute young person assuming the serious responsibility of recalling her cousin’s errant husband to a sense of his domestic duties. This she does in a manner that provides good clean comedy, with the radiant personality‘ of the little star shining through all the action of the play ‘

SHACKLETONIS PICTURES.

| THURSDAY. | No drama of imagination was ever tmore vivid than the wonderful motion lpictures of the Shackleton Expedition land the crushing of the ‘Endni-ance” §in the Polar pack-ice is unique in the ‘history of photography. The imagination falters; one’s mind can hardly encompass the story and scenes of hardship, heroism and dramatic adventure iii the Antarctic that are unfolded in the progress of Captain Hurley’s lecture and pictures. In his own words “Perhaps no films in the annals of kinematography have been subjected to such amazing vicissitudes and run the gauntlet of so many hair-breadth escapes before reaching the screen as those I took of the last Shackleton Expedition. Although this grand endeavour was defeated on the threshold of success, and our vessel was nipped by the pack-ice within sight of our destination, the films records did not suffer. On the con—. trary, I_ was enabled to secure a range of unique’ subjects hitsherto unseen‘ and unrecorded, in the South Polar regions.l’ (.‘-apmin Hurley did not exaggerate the value of his remarkable achievements—the films are unique—an edoucation——to all who see them. A special matinee will be given at time? on‘ Thursday. The plan is now open at the Kings, where record booking is expected.

MARIE CORELLI’S “TREASURE OF HEAVEN.”

AT TOWN HALL TO—NIGHT. The management of Our Pictzires, at fhe Town Hall have secured the exclusive rights of the new Gaumont English productions, wvhich have -been:

causing a furore among the picture fans in the Old Dart. The first of these, 9. fine picturisation of Magic Core]li’s famous novel, “The 'l.‘rca.:ure of -Heaven,” is to be presented at the Town Hall -To-night’. and all who can. enjoy a. powerful story of life mild loveshould be sure to see it. Being an»; all-British production, is comes as a,_ welcome change to the übiquitous .~\_nleric::n drama, with which pict'lre~ patrons have been surfeited ‘For murly months past. A full ’suppor-fining programme, including the latest En_:;li.+h_ Topical Budget, precedes the star at-« traction.