AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17713, 26 August 1919, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

Tho chief item of the specially attractive programme at present boiu K screened at tha iCiug Edward Theatre is entitled " Our Littio Wife." The story of the !ilm is nn unusual one and deals with a bride who takes with her on her lionoyiuoon ueveiuA disappointed suitors. The complications arising throughout the picture ore ludicrous in the extreme. The supporting programme is a good one. Good audiences -were present at all sessions of tho Queen's Theatre yesterday, whan tho loading iilm in the programme- was entitled "Tne Secret Codo." This picture deals with the spy system, and is intensely interesting. The supporting programme includes tho second episode of "The Fighting Trail." " An extra attraction to tho programme at the Plaza Theatre- ie tho looal picture of tho Capping Carnival, showing tho procession from beginning to end. The photograph is clear, and is an excellent production. It caused much amusement when screened yesterday, and those talcing part are easily recognised. This picture will be screened daily with tile programme, and tho big local picture of Peace Day proocssion will commence on Friday. ( , At the King's Theatre a romnntio drama, ' •£■ Touch of Sin," is the loading attraction. Ihe story relates how a girl gives her lovo and trust to a man who proves himself worthless, and is then cast on her own resources. She crosses the continent of America, and in a big mining town meets a man who discovers her real worth, and she is made happy in his love. Gladys Brockwell takes the part of the heroine, and (jives a very fine impersonation. Tom Mix is seen in a dashing comedy, " Tho Tenderfoot," and there are other good supports. There will be a complete change of programme to-day at the Empire Theatre, when Sessuo Hayakawa will be tho feature in a powerful Paramount drama entitled " The City of Dim Faces." This film deals with a young Chinese-American, a college graduate, whose father is a Chinese merchant in San Franciseo'6' Chinatown, and his mother a white woman. He is ignorant of her existence, and she is her husband's prisoner in an underground den, and hopelessly demented. Remorse seizes him, and when ho discovers that he is half-white ho at once rushes to the rescue of the girl, and in a fight is wounded. Ho rescues the girl from the clutches of the Chinese, and wanders to the underground den. His mother's reason returns for an instant, and she recognises her long-lost son as ho dies at her feet. The supporting pictures will include a new Jester comedv entitled "The Fatal Flower" and the latest Topical Gazettes.