AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3546, 6 August 1920, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

TOWN HALL PICTURES.

RIGHT OFF THE REEL. At the Town Hall next Saturday, Sessue Hayakawa, the noted Japanese actor, in his latest pl:-otoplay, “A Heart in P:lwn,’_’." one cf the best prov, ductions of Japanese life and atmosphere that the screen has presented. The story has been put across in an emotional language that can be readily understood by all.‘ it ‘has been stagedin the Japanese tea garden of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and vicinity. Sessue Haykav.-a has‘”l'l'ever done bet: ter work than in" this picture, whiehl offers oportunities for colourful characterisation. U 'l"s‘?'l?x;T -Aoki has alsol proved her claim to dfixmatic talent,J giving a graceful and touching por-I ltrayal of the little Japanese wife who-I was sentenced .to prison for killing in! self-defence. ' !

THE KING ’S—“THE VVQLF_7' I The film adaptation of Eugene Wa.l~ ter’s play, “The Wolf,” -by thg Vita. ‘ graph, is a fine success. It has all the _ attributes Supplied with the true atmost phero of the land of the Canadian trapper. Its hero--—y’layedv by lE-arle W-i‘.liams——is of the virile type that‘ will appeal to the feminine spectator—— 5 its villiant with ',Robert MeKim ex-ii ploiting the role, will stir the red blood I of the average man. Jane Novak‘ is especially pleasing "in her portrayal of Hilda McTavish, led farom infancy to believe that her soul is black. Geor-gei Nichols as f.An<jreW Mq?cTavisll, the! cruel father of the girl, typifies well‘ the traditional Scottish male parent. tßil‘y Mason in a character of lighter‘; vein. relieves the tragic tenor of the lplay, and Bi-insley Shaw, the lover of the earlier scenes. also acquits himself well. The picture is splendidly made. ‘The director has”e-vtatmtly given the play serious consideration and has then ‘proceeded to work it to the last drop of its vitality. This feature will be shown Friday’ and Saturday. On Saturd:ly it cllild:ren’s matinee -will be given showing “The Wolf,” and “The lMan of Might.” Cliildrén will be ad- , mi-tted for six pence.