AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3566, 31 August 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

0 TOWN HALL PICTURES. BRINGING UP BETTY. If you want laughter, romance, or thri'll in large quantities dished up with a delightful story of a wealthy young girl who is haunted by fortune ” tin.'g suitors go and sec ‘‘Bringing Up Betty ’ ’ the really excellent Worth’s feature to be shown for the last time at the Town Hall to-night* The phonography, rhe ‘‘'settings, tha mounting and the acting’ leave nothing to be desired, while the yachting and motor-boat scenes are a 'true delight. This is certainly a feature well worth seeing. THE KING’S JANE EYRE. On Wednesclay”and Thursday the introduction of Jane Eyre, best beloved of all fie:ion heroines to the screen, in the Select photo dram a, “Woman and Wife” starring Alice Brady ,is a notable event which has been await; ed with keenest ihterst. This masterpiece by Charlotte Bronte, has made Jane Eyre a household word; and sharing in her popularity is the un fortune- o .Rochester whom she loved so devotedly.

This worltf-famous novel enjoys a doubly-high reputation, for seldom is a classic hailed By generation after generation with such love and interest by readers of both sexes of all ages and in all lands, “Jane Eyre” has translated into a score of tongues and in' each of them -rhe book easily holds its own as a favourite of favourites. __ ’Slice Brady as the unfortunate Jane needs no fulsome praise—she does not act she role l — is Jane Eyre.