AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3576, 11 September 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES. ‘‘HUMAN DESIRE.” .. Babies —all kinds of them —rich, poor, heirs and foundlings, are the keynote of Anita Stewart’s latest First National feature, “Human Desire.” The story deals with a quaint unconquerable mother-instinct in ~a girl who is an inmate of a convent; to fondle, ilove and press to her heart a little ‘bambino,’ she trudges barefoot, in trousers, from thfc convent ia Italy. Forceful, compelling and at all times pleasing the picture hits a note that is different, and besides furnishing a splendid role for the lovely little star that fits her like a glove, it has an undoubted human appeal 'to all lovers of children, A full supporting programme will accompany this feature which will be shown at the Town Hall to-night. The 13th episode of “The Man of Might” will be shown. THE KING’S TO-NIGHT. “A FIGHTING cSILEEN.” A Vitagraph feature presenting a story of the slums of a great city. Perfumed and spiced by the personal- . ity and Elfin charm of Bessie Love in a role that is always her best, a ' li tie slavey of charity flats, a lily growing in the mire, battling with smile and spunk against adversity, creating her own little world of Romance and advehture* and bringing sunshine into the alley. The entertaining comedy drama “A Fighting Colleen” brings Bessie Love in’ a typical Irish Colleen role which she interprets in a charming and convincing manner. The photoplay is set in the tenement district of the Metropolis where poverty is the” lot of a young girl who until her mother’s death, is a vendor of newspapers on the street corners, and engaging in many fights to protect her -territory from the competitions of newsboys When she administers a sound thrashing to one youth lie thereafter becomes her champion. As the District Attorney is a candidate for the office of Mayor he is interested in discovering evidence of graft against, the administration in power, and -the girl assists him. ’While it is not heavy or melodramatic, it has a light romence angle, pathos occasionally and altogether is an entertaining comedy drama with a human appeal.