ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 25 March 1915, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURES. The star films are featured on tonight's change of programme. Charlie Chaplin appears in Keystone's latest star comedy, "The New Janitor." Chaplin is the new Janitor, so a funny result is assured. ''The Devil's Dansant," Kalem's star drama, is a thrilling play. It is a story of a society lady's new fad. THanhouscr present "The Guiding Hand," a pathetic and fascinating drama of a. blind girl and her influence for good. Supporting .programme includes: "The Widow and the Twins" and "The Investment" (two comedies); "Topical Budget" (war news), etc.

"THE GLAD EYE." "Kiki" will come to New Plymouth on Tuesday, March 30, and the box plm to witness her arrival opens at Colliers on Friday next. "Kiki" is a fascinating young milliner with a habit of giving the glad eye and lias made of the comedy of that name a success which is akin to marvellous, '••flie Glad started oil being a record breaker in London, when it ran for fifteen months without a stop, now it has duplicated, triplicated and quadrupled that success in Sydney, Melbourne, Africa, ami Canada, and beyond that it has started on a joyous wild career of mirth round the Dominion. It was also about to proceed to Berlin, when the Kaiser upset everything, including bis own calculations, in private life "Kiki" is Miss Ethel Dane, who originated the character in London and in the merry band oF comedians who support her are sucli well-known English names as Tom Shelford, n. J. Ford, Frank Bradley, Claud Vernon, Alice Hamilton and Si.ma St. Clair.

FRANK MORTON'S WAR TALK. [ The people of New Zealand have seen many pictures of the war, and many car. toons of the Kaiser and his generals, as seen from the Allies' side, in the illustrated lecture to be given by Mr. Frank j Morton in the Theatre Royal next Wednesday evening, a number of cartoons and sketches by German artists will be exhibited. They will serve to convey an excellent idea of the extreme confidence which the German nation manifests in itself, ami its great contempt for everything British. ' Mr. Morton will, in'a very interesting talk based on information gained on first-class authority, in: troduce several celebrities of the' war whose names are at present unknown in this country. Particularly does this refer to Russia, where the real military genius is a personage whose name is never quoted in the war news of to-day. Mr. Morton will appear for one night only. The box plan will open at Hoffmann's next Saturday.