AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3536, 26 July 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

THE KING’S

“THE FACE* AT THE WINDOW.”

j Can the dead speak? Can the life--1 less corpse of a murdered man be rc- | yived for long enough to toll the murj derer’s name? That is the fascinating motif of the new Australian film melodrama. "The Face at the Window,” a play that has had a wonderfully successful run on the legitimate stage, and to .judge from the quality of the production should bo equally successful on the screen. The story ■centres about the exploits of a notorious criminal known as Le Loup, whose usual preliminary is to present at the window of the abode he is about to enter a visage of horrifying and terrible fiendishness. 'His last victim lives long enough to write part of the name of his murderer, and in a scene of dramatic intensity his body is animated by a current of electricity to complete the last order of the brain, which was to wfite the rca 1 man who masqueraded as "Le Loun.” Vamps snid Variety” a scream of a comedy, together with the "Man of Might” will also be shown. town hall to-night. ' .Metro comedy dramas are always popular with Taihapo picture audiences. and that showing at file Town Hail to-night is just the sort we want. . - clever, excruciatingly funny and a‘ times very exciting— vet every bit of it possible and feasible—oven probable under the circumstances. May Allison, the beauty of the Metro studios plays the lead in this play, which is entitled tf Tn For Thirty Days,” and was specially adapted for her by the author, Luther A. Rood. Anyone who can enjoy a good laugh and yet does not need slap-stick or insanity to arouse their risible faculties should make a point of seeing this clexcr and sonsib'e comedy tonight.

I hen 1 is a full supporting programme ol topical and other pictures in addition to the “feature.”