AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3572, 7 September 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. '‘THE ROUGHNECK.” To say that last night’s audience got carried away by* the intense excitement and thrill in ‘‘The Roughneck” Is to quote mildly. They allowed their pent up emotions to run riot as the excitement grew in intensity. Rough and tumble fights with Montague Love a-s the -star turn soon interpreted the title “EougTTncck,” but it might easily be taken for 41 breakneck, ” the way he eAeaned up that bunch of city grafters. Barbara Castleton was the pretty heroine responsible for the novel and unusual

love theme that wends* i s way through the feature. To-night is the last opportunity of seeing this splendid offering. THE KING’S WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. Wanted: a wife; and she answered the ad? An interchange of letters, a proposal of marriage and she stoned in"o the ominous silence of a -western wilderness to meet the man! She met him. not in the ‘'elegant home’ 3 he had pictured in his letters hut in a dilapidated, weather-beaten shack. A sneering glance, a bolted door and she .realizes that she had been tricked. What followed in that loncy hut is vividly depicted in Pauline Frederick’s latest Goldwyn success, “The Peace of. Roaring River.’* By arrangement, with Mr. P. Mills the 4th episode of “The Strange Case of Mary Page” wall .also be shown. The action grows stronger and stronger and your sympathy goes out to Mary Page as the mystery complicates itself.