AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3475, 1 May 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

OUR PICTURES;-TOWN HAZEL.

‘SESSUS HAYAKAWA IN “THE CITY OF DIM FACES.”

After many disappointments, shared by both the management and patrons alike, the wonderful Sessue Hayakawa picture, "The City of Dim Faces” arrived early this morning in Ta'lhaP‘3 by special car from Wellington, and will be shown to-day and to-night for certain at the Town Hall. The management have been put to 0011'Isiderable trouble and expense in getting this picture up for their patrflns; and it behovesgthe public to respond by accorqing unstinted support to the Town H-albl to-night. A full programme of auxiliary pictures, comedy and interest, ‘s'up];ol‘t the star ‘feature.

THE KING'S.

“THE CLAW ’.’ TO-NIGHT. In a.p'ologising- for disappointing the many patrons last evening with “The Claw,” the management of the King’s beg to announce that a special car has beenn sent to Feilding to bring back this feature for Saturday night. Clara Kimball Young’s latest feature is “The ClaW,§’ a thrilling .s't'ory of life on the great African veldt, adapted from the famous novel by Cynthia Stockley of the same name. The beautiful star has many opportunities in “The Claw”"of proving her versatility, as the story calls for much action and varied accomplishments in the shape of riding, shooting, dancing. She: excels in all ,and her radiant beauty gives to the picture a charm that not even .the intensity of its dramatic situations and novelty of its plot can dim. Wild animals are featured in it at least one scene, and the star is called to protect herself against a lion, when ‘left stranded on the veldt_at night by the drunken mule dl‘iVel',_ is a - novel -form of B_caut_\,' and t.llc-xßcast. The serial has arrived and will also be shown.