ENTERTAINMENTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 557, 13 August 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

POPULAR PICTURES. "FOR BETTER FOR WORSE." Another special Paramount Artcraft picture that has been booked to the Popular Pictures is the production that is claimed by Cecil B. De Mille as by far his best efTon to date. "For Better For Worse," which will be screened at the Oddfel lows' Hall next Friday, tells the story of a doctor who stayed at home during the stressing days of the war, and who was branded as a coward by the woman he loved. The doctor had thought it all out, and had come to the conclusion that he was needed

at St. Agnes Hospital, where there were hundreds of crippled children needing his care and skill. And so he saw the girl of his heart marry her soldier suitor, and saw her turn from him, calling him a coward. How this drama is developed is bet told by Mr. De Mille through the medium of the screen. It is full of appeal, and comes to a resounding climax. Elliot Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Tom Forman, Wanda Hawley, Raymond, Hatton, Theodore Roberts, and Sylvia Ashton enac-t the principal roles. This big picture is the second of a contract line of specials to Popular PIB- - and the experimont is being tried of showing them. All at the Rate of One and Sixpence for Adults, and Ninepenee for Children.

A LESSON FOR BRIDES. There. is a lesson for brides in Jewel Carmen's latest William Fox photoplay, Confession." They should be careful not to lose their wedding ring-, especially on the honeymoon trip. An odd and tragic series of events happened to Miss Carmen after robbers had stolen her new gold marriage circlet. The honeymoon was badly interrupted. "Confession" is one picture of a double programme showing at the Oddfellows' Hall next Tuesday. The other is an allstar feature, "The Spider and the Fly," also a William Fox production. The following Friday look for Sessue Hayakawa in "The City of Dim Faces.''

LYCEUM PICTURES. SATURDAY. One of the strongest situations in the new Vitagraph special, "A Rogue's Romance," is developed when a beautiful society girl brands herself as a thief to save her sweetheart, a master crook. The play, which is constructed around the story of a famous French criminal, is thriilingly dramatic, and provides a great opportunity for Earle Williams, the clever impersonator of crook roles, and a master of the difficult art or doubling his parts. Here he appears in no less than four separate roles. "Rogues Romance" is a picture with plenty of sensation. The supports are Topical Budget and a two-reel comedy.

"THE MIRACLE MAN,'' WEDNESDAY NEXT. I The story: A gang of criminals hear of the strange powers of a "patriarch" in a remote village, whose beauty of life and faith have helped J to bring health and peace of mind to the suffering. Assuming innocence and belief, they surround him, and stage a pretended "miracle'' through which they plan to exploit the sightjess iiealer as a business enterprise. I Their cunning succeeds beyond all I their hopes, but unconsciously they fall under the spell which they sought to use. They are themselves transformed, lifted by faith from de-

pravity to a cleansed, ennobled manI hood and womanhood. That is all. A [ theme of elemental simplicity, yet fas complex as the human heart; as i niodern as yesterday's news; yet as old as the .hills of' Galilee. It has none of the magnificent settings and ingenious theatrical illusions of those spectacles which have evoked acclaim and wonderment. The magnetism of this story lies in scenes of beauty and tranquility no less than in those of sordidness and ferocity. Its passion is masterful, but its quietude is irresistible. It steals* into the heart like an exquisite poem, lives in the memory like a haunting song. The admission charges are: Adults 2s and Is fid (plus tax); children fid and Is, | Reserves at The. Botkery, [