ENTERTAINMENTS.

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 203, 9 December 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

WEDNESDAY NEXT —“ POPPY." A special attraction at ordinary prices will bo provided at tho Town Hall pictures on Wednesday next, when Cynthia Stockloy’s sensational novel of South African lile will ho scroonod. This is tho story that made tho wholo world woop. Tho picture that caused a tremendous sonsation in England and America. A lavish production that aHords a gorgoous setting for tho flashing beauty and magnetic appeal of Norina Talmadgo, If you lnvvo read tho novel, you have smiled through your tears and wished that somo div you might seo tho pathetic littlo child of dostiny on tho screen — you may even have vistialisod Norma Talmadgo in tho rolo. Now your ohanco lias arrived, for Miss Talmadgo, in her impersonation of tho helpless littlo waif, is a living, breathing “Poppy”—tho very girl of your droams. She prosonts to you tho lilo of tho girl who graduated from drudgery to fame and succoss, alter tho ouo night of madness in tho moonlit garden, when lovo smiled upon hor burron life—through tho six years ol sorrow that followed —to tho groat day when, her literary hopes realised, sho found liorsolf once more in tho protecting arms of tho lovor sho had long given up as lost to hor, and hoard again tho throbbing magic of his voice, whispering in her oar: “If I wore stricken blind in this hour, J could recogniso you from among a thousand women —by tho sweet scent of your hair! ”