AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3660, 24 December 1920, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL. TO-NIGHT. FOOTLIGHTS AND SHADOWS Olive Thomas ’ Selznick picture sets a new mark of achievement for both the star and the producer. For Miss Thomas it offers'” opportunities for emotional and dramatic acting greater than any other of her prev. ious photoplays, and for the producer it" represents possibilities in the Hue of elaborate staging and astistic effects that very few, if any, screen attratcions have brought Iforth. The element of mystery and suspense is well developed in this new play which deals with strange adventures of Gloria Dawn, a beautiful actress who is the star in'the “Mid. night/Revue. ” Her strange experiences begin when in the middle of night a man admilau himself to her apartments with his own key. He then collapses with brain fever, and Gloria to avoid scandal announces him as a distant relative. Then follows a series of complication which make the. solution of the plot of the most intense. interest. Usual standard prices will rule.

THE ALL RED ROUTE By the courtesy of the Borough Council especially selected series of pictures will be shown .at the Town Hall on Xmas night headed by a wonderful travel picture “The All Red Route,’’ which is a glorified travel-picture from England to N.Z. via Canada. This is recognised as one of the wonder trips of the world and gives a marvellous view of the mighty grandeur of the All Red Route scenery. Special praise is due to the excellence of the sea studies which show the mighty ocean in all its moods. It certainly will appeal to those who would care to travel, or those who have crossed mighty Canada

* •* , ♦.'ttaL-*., THE KING’S. THE SHADOW OF LIGHTNING • RIDGE. o ■ * (Reprinted from N.Z, Times.) A sensational Australian film romance, ‘ ‘ The Shadow of Lightning Ridge, ’ ’ drew crowded sessions yes. terday at the Empress Theatre, on the, occasion of its initial presentation in New Zealand. The icture, which was produced in New South Wales by the E. J. Carroll Company, in ‘ co.operation with “ Snowy” v Baker, the noted tralian athlete, occupies a class of its own in point of general excellence and the engaging nature of the theme. Most of the scenes aire laid in the wild, picturesque, rugged backblocks on the actual hunting ground of Burke, the notorious bushranger. Space ■ (precludes . the enumeration of all the sensational ‘ f stunts ’ ’ performed I by 1 ‘ ‘ Snowy ’ ’ Baker, but among the most notable are his leaps on horseback from a forty feet cliff into a river; his gallop on his horse Boomerang along, side a fast-moving train, which he boards by flinging himself from the saddle; the mounting of a racehorse in a railway van and jumping the horse to the ground; anl hfe" drop from the roof of a two-storied hotel into a stunted tree below.' iHis athletic prowess is displayed in his thrilling combats with those who eneavour to arrest him, throwing hefty men about like kittens, and in .one most realistic struggle he hurls an adversary over a staircase a dis. tance of about twenty feet. Baker shorty afterwards clears the top of an ordinary-sized piano in the nestest jump imaginable. Leading to the main action of the piece, Baker is seen lassooing a wild steer in America and throwing it, riding a buck-jumping horse in South Africa, an(j shooting a real lion. The indis pensablo love theme is charmingly interwoven in the story. I

This picture will be shown on Thursday and Friday, commencing with a special matinee on Thursday at 2. when the children will be admitted for fid The p.lan is now open at Slier win , s i