AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3557, 20 August 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. •I TOM MOOEE AND CONSTANCE TALMADGE. To-night and Saturday Tom Moo,re and Constance Talmadge will be see* in an extraordinary "Sel&et" feature "The Lesson.'' ' 'The Lesson •' ' is a highly entertaining photoplay—wholesome, delightful and masterfully produced—a refreshing clean breath of spring air in the stifiling atmosphere of the sexstressing melodramas which crowd the screen to excess. As such "The Lesson" sands out from the rut of the common garden variety of pictures, but it possesses an additional noteworthy feature in the fidelity with which it portrays Small 'town happenings as well as metropolitan life. Constance the cute and cunning is assisted in "The Lesson" by Tom Moore, and the combination furnishes fine entertainment.

A charming 'rale of the romance of typical young married folks—loo per cent, real folks whose life and love is just what we see about! us all the time and everywhere. But even more than its story value, "The Lesson" is so meritorious because of its wonderfully true-to-life portrayal of small town life. It is a picture voii will always, remember fondly and vividly,\ and to which you will take your father and mother, your sister and bro her, your wife and sweetheart. That is the highest possible recommendation—and "The Lesson" deserves iU When we add that "The Lesson" is administered by Onstance Talmadge. it is a guarantee hi an enjoyable picture.

I THE KING'S. ! ' SATURDAY. Saturday's feature at the King's 5s '"The Flame of Life". It is interesting to note that the '"• Flame of Life" was shown at Marlborough House by Royal Command. This distinction was ■gained because it was the first Swedish Picture shown in England since the war; because of the character of the picture, and beauty of the scenery, and because the artists belonged to the Swedish Royal Society of Artists. The Stockholm Theatre is n State organisation, the King and Queen of" Sweden being enthusiastic patrons; 'Only the best artists belong to the 'Society, and in is from this Society the performers in ' 'The "Flame •of Life'' wore secured. Lars Hanson is remarkably dever and wonderfully suited as David and Edith Erastoff is equally fitted to the part of the' heroine' —but every performer is splendid —they do { no't act—they five the parts allotted to them. "The Man of Might" will also be shown. • I