AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17083, 15 August 1917, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS.

Tho audienco present at tho Octagon ITieatre last evening found the prograjiiime submitted very much to their taste. " The Argyle Case" is the leading dramatic attraction. One or two other good pictures and a well-chosen musical programme serve to con.pleto an excellent evening's entertainment.

There will be a. change of programme at the Queers and King Edward Theatres today. Tho Pinch Hitter," a Triangle picture, produced under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, presents Charlea Ray in the character of Joel Parker, known among t;io inhabitants of Turkey Creek, Vt., as tho " bashful est critter in the country, and sort of dumified." He finallv gams permission from his crabbed old father to attend Williamson College. Pretty Abbie Nettleton sympathises with tho cawky youth, and encourages him to try out the baseball team, rlis chance comcs, and lio "wins a- spocfcacu]arvictory for the school. Incidentally he wins tho love of a girl and the respect of his crusty father. At both sessions at the Plaza. Picture Theatre yesterday there were good attendances, the draw card being a film entitled "The Pursuing Vengeance," beintr an adaptation from the thrilling detective story,, ' The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet." rhe big morality _ play, "Ignorance," will oo shown 2it this liho9,tr6 on Mondjiv August 20. "Moral Courage" is the title of the star picture to be screened at Everybody's today featuring Muriel Ostriche and Arthur Ashley. The play contains some fine Scotch touches—in fact, the atmosphere is as Scotch as the bonny heroine herself. Mary M/Chnton is offered 100,000 dollars to divoroe her husband, and to save him from being ruined does so, only to propose to him immediately afterwards, and they are promptly remarried. The third chapter of The Iron Claw" also givec promise of revealing somo startling episodes. "BIRTH OF A NATION." Plenty of activity marks the preparations for .tho -presentation of "The Birth of a Nation ' at the Octagon Theatre on Saturday next. The film is quite the peer of the mighty ' Intolerance," and, as a matter of fact, lends itself still more to special musical and mechanical effect work, and the Octagon Theatre will provide a revelation on Saturday for Dunedin.