AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3644, 3 December 1920, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL ' "■ QUINNEY »3. At "the Town Hall on Saturday Quinneys will be presented. It certainly is the greatest English picture turned out since the war, with certainly tthe foremost english.. actor,' , Henry Ainley in the leading, role, abiy supported by Isobel Elsom. This • makes Quinneys an attraction that none should miss. A lovely story that makes real and lasting friends. A. \ character full of strength, yet" with the most delicate half-tones, Joe Quinney is a remarkable creation, always human aand intensely real. Henry Ainley, as Joe Quinney, is a superb performaance, instinct with understanding of human nature, .and triumphant in every art known* to the actor of touching the hearts of an audience by revelations of unsuspected emotion. The English Press loudly proclaim the . merits of this super-play in the following glowing criticisms: «• The Times: "In every respect an admirable film. As to its success there can be no question." Daily Express: "A film that should hold its own in any market in the world —a British triumph." Weekly Dispatch: "This fine production has exactly the essential human foundation that it wanted for universal appreciation." Evening News: "Everybody admired the clever character acting of Henry Ainsley, England's greatest actor —a model of what picture acting should be."

Daily Telegraph: "One is carried on in such an impetuous whirl of laughter, touched with pathos, that we feel, wiith the closing of the story, the passing of a friend one has learned to love."

Moving Picture News: "The film is even better than theh play, and the splendid acting of Henry Ainley is a delight to the eye." Daily Mail: "Yet another splendid British film. Henry Ainley, certainly our foremost screen actor, seems even more human as Quinney on the film, than he was on the stage.'* Is very British, and is just what the British producer can do better than competitors. Usual prices will be charged.

THE RING'S v - HALE HAMILTON. \ _ "The Four Flusher," a new * Metro production, which opens at the 'King's Theatre to-night, with the increasingly popular Hale Hamilton in the stellar role, furnishes a delightfully new and diverting entertainment in the pictorial drama.

There is not a dull moment in this comedy-drama. And comedy-drama it is, of a human kind which finds a genuine appeal from the youngest in the audience to f£e oldest. The authors of the story, Izola Forrester and Mann Page, have conceived an idea which should meet with universal

approval. Mr Hamilton, playing the role of Lon Withers, a young New York clerk, who picks up a live tip from a friend and makes a fortune out of it by putting on "a big front," is an enjoyable character, pictured true to life to the last detail, and is reminiscent of this same star's sensational stage success ' 'Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford'.' in which he portrayed a financial genius. Picturesque and beautiful are the stage settings and exteriors of "The Four Four Flusher" i ' ich was- directed by Harry L. Fir.nklin, and personally supervised by Maxwell Kar-, ger, Director General of Metro. The cast' also was excellent and gave capable support to the star. It included Ruth Stonehouse, Harry Holden, Ralph Bell, Robert Badger, Louis Pitzray, Frederic Malatesta and Erne Conley. The Lightning Raider will also be showing. The usual Saturday Matinee, at which children' will be charged 6d, w T ill be run.