AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 February 1918, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. Clara, Kimball Young’s splendid impersonation of the heroine in “The Price She Paid ? ” will be pictured in the Opera. House to-night for the last time by Pollard’s pictures, and on to-morrow (Friday) and Staurday evening as well ns at a, grand matinee on Saturday afternoon, Thomas Hughes’s great classic, Tom Brown’s School Days’’ will be presented in wonderful picture form by the Windsor Company. All sides of schoolboy life at the greatest of public schools, Rugby, its friendships and fights (not forgetting the famous fight between Slogger Williams and Tom Brown), bird nesting, poaching, races_ . sports, and 1 other incidents are cleverly interwoven with two love stories—one of budding youth, the other the romantic story of bow Tom finds that his school cbuYn’s mot)ier is his own erring sister. There are three Tom Browns in the pictlurisation, rendered necessary by the different ages at which the youthful hero was shown. This great picture was honoured by a special command presentation at Windsor Palace, the only film drama to receive such an honour since the war. “It’s a boy’’ is the sentence that introduces Tom Brown to the audience in this clever picturisation of the young life of a roan from tin? time it's a. boy to good-bye old school. Parents and heads, of schools are particularly requested to .note the matinee to be given on Saturday afternoon of the splendid story of a boy’s school days at one of the greatest of public schools. Rugby.

TOWN HALL. “The Power' of Decision,” featuring Francis Nelson, will be screened at the Peerless Pictures to-night for the last time. Tiie latest. Artcraft film, entitled “In Again, Out Again.” featuring- tile übiquitous Douglas Fairbanks will be the big attraction at the Peerless Pictures to-morrow (Friday) and at both sessions on Saturday. The outline of the storv is as follows-—“ Behind majestic Hudson lives Teddv Rutherford, a youth of metropolitan ideas, and a vigorous exponent of prenaredness. Before the natives realise it the community becomes the very hive of munition manufacturers, and behind many rural walls immense quantities of powder are being prepared for the nation’s defence. Teddy falls in love with Pa cilice Ford, who happens to be the daughter of an extreme pacifist. When Teddy’s courtship is refused hi favour of a' youthful pacifist, the rigorous youth vows that he is through with tiie fair sex for all time, and imbibes freely of spirits. On awakening the next morning he finds himself in gaol with a pretty girl nursing a discoloured optic. After becoming acquainted with his fair nurse. Teddy decides that jhe world is not so bad after all, and when he learns that she is Janie Smith, the deputy sheriff’s daughter, who is never allowed to venture outside the prison grounds by her watchful parent, he welcomes with joy the information that be is sentenced to 30 days’ in gaol. Someone’s mania, for placing bombs .under Jersey ammunition plants and blowing them into thin air disturbs the sheriff’s peace of mind to the extent of promising tiie hand of his daughter to the person who can throw some light on the mystery. When his worries are at their height the sheriff discovers the trend of Janie’s affections and orders the prison authorities to allow’ Teddy to go free on the ground that the prisoner’s health is in great danger. The latter, finding that he is by no means a welcome caller at the gaol, decides that he will get back, and proceeds to live the life of an unlawful citizen with this end in view. He tries speeding, only to find that he has crossed the city line and is sent to the wrong gaol. Breaking up a pacifist meeting conducted by the father and finacee of his former swi-w----heart robbing a house, and other disorderly acts fail to attain the desired results. " As a last resort Teddy impersonates the mysterious stranger who has been sending the munition plants skyward, from a description of the culprit which lias been spread broadcast. He finally realises bis great ambition, but is given little time to rejoice over bis successes, for tilings take an abrupt and serious turn, when be discovers that be lias no moans of proving that be is not the desperate criminal be is impersonating. However, the end is satisfactory.