AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3504, 16 June 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

OUR PICTURES-—TOWN HALL.

TO-MORE-OW NIGHT.‘ Virginia. Pearson has a particularly‘ strong and compelling story in “Then Firebrand,” which will be one of the two features to be shown at the Town. Hall to‘-morrow night only. It is a tale of the Russian revolrrtaion and shows the intense and bitfor battle hetrveen the revolutionists and the royal~ ists for the control of that. vast but badly governed country. The other feature is a. Japanese extravaganza entitled “-’Fan Fan,” in which a. big spectacular pantomine such as produced in the famous New York revues, is shown in motion pictures. The production is redolent of the ‘atmosphere of the Orient. In settings‘ and costuming it is magnificent. It is full of clean rippling comedy, the. sort of entertainmeat that every member of a family will enjoy.

b THE KING'S. “THE SHUTTLE.’-’ ‘ Constance Talmadge charmed last’: nigllt.’s audience with her talented performance in “The 'Shutt{le.” The story held the: audience entranced from start to finish. Aiiothor excellent feature Waé “Fares and Fairness,” a comedy in which a number of trained dolls do some remarkable acting and’; stunts, T “THE THIRD DEGREES’

I Far above the average picture, “The Third Degree,” ‘which. was such a phenomenal stage success, will be presented at the King ’s on Thursday. Inspite of this being a new feature noincrease in prices will rule. _ . I “THE MIRACLE MAN”—FRIDAY. The “Miracle Man” has the’distinci tion of being the greatest artistic and ,moral achievement of the screen age. lltg, elusive yet unforgetable quality is revealed in the fact that the story may be told in two sentences, yet could not. be conveyed adequately in words. [ A gang of criminals hear of the strange powers of at "Pptriarch"’ in a. remote village, whose beauty of life and faith have helped to bring health and peace of mind to the sulfering; assuming innocence and belief, they surround him and stage a pretended “miracle,” through which they plan to exploit the‘ sightless healer as a business enter--lprise. ’l‘heir cunning .~u:-eeenls beyond '\ hopes, but unconsciously they fall ’ under the spell which they had sought to use, and are themselves_transform!ec'l, lifted: by fa.ith from depravity to ’-a cleansed, onnobled manhood and WO- - That is all. A theme of elemental simplicity, yet as complex as the human heart; it is the simplicity of the story and its telling that.’ makes its success so Striking. It steals. into the heart like an exquisite poem, and lives in the memory like :1. haunting melody. “The Miracle llrfan” is :1 womlrcms rloeument of humanity and love of fellou'~kiml: E 3; is: an {Live-in-spiring :iellie\'ement of human endeavour and of genius, and has made the ll:lll‘l€‘ of George Loane Tucker one that will gm .l_m\~p_ /{ho {uses as Hm. “!"“‘-‘ “f “The Miracle Mari.”