ENTERTAINMENTS.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 April 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LYRIC THEATRE At the Lyric Theatre on Saturday evening "Kent, the Fighting Man," featuring the ex-heavy-weight.chanjpion* of England, Bombardier Billy Wells, will be screened for the first time in HelensvM*^. The story is a well-costructed one and w' * "^ full of incident, sustaining the interest until the end. The Bombardier takes the V: : , part of a man-about-town, Westcrley, I:>t who, becoming involved by gambling ' losses, forges his father's name to a cheque for £2060. Cut adrift as a result, he suffers many vicissitudes in his endeavour to make good, meeting in his travels, Constance Ferdinand.a lady destined to play a big part in his life. While a member of a touring circus, Westerley's is nng-craft is discovered, and he becomes Kent, the fighting man, and wins fame as a pugilist. The climax is reached when he is pitted against Batten, a popular heavyweight, He wins, after a dogged encounter, the victory resulting in his : father relenting. Thus Kent, now Westterley, is re-instated, and the picture^ comes to a happy conclusion. Bombar- J* cuer Wdls will come as a surprise to 4&" most picture patrons as a film artist. He ' "';^ works with sincerity, and is entirely free - from affectation. The screening of the < star attraction is preceded by two very - diverting comedies, featuring Charlie . > Lhaplm and Roscoe ArbuckJe. The price of admission is 2s and is plus tax. V- > Box plan at Stewart's office.

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. Some of the most intense and bloodcurdling experiences ever known in the snowspread wilds of Arctic Candaa arc reproduced in the magnificently-staged paramount photo-drama, "The Law of the North/ which is to- be shown at Everybody son Saturday evening next. Charles Ray , s the leading* fi gure in the story, and proves himself fully capable of depicting the fierce passions of primitive life. You will shudder afthe terrible -*■ battle on the palisades of the trading post; but the sight of the scoundrel* dog team Pursued by a pack of wolves, freezes the blood. He is compelled to slaughter his H team one by one in the effort to save his own miserable life. Amid the ferocious : events thrown on the screen, there is a a mT, X VL and tendernes* that glows .... ■ «

LADIES' GUILD SOCIAL. ' The Church of England Ladies'' Guild ' arefolding a social and euchre tourna- \ ment in the Agricultural Hall on Wednesday evening next, April 21 8t . These -j« sociab, whlch were held thro v - winter, were very popular, and it is the ■ intention of the promoters to run I social on every third W A A throughouttheooming winter:nonth^.^ ';