ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1916, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

I EGMOXT PICTURES. The Kgmont Pictures will submit an attractive programme this week at Ra- , liotn, Okato and Opunake. On the programme is "The Crucible of Fate." Dr. Ross Lowell's professional duties are so exacting that he is obliged to somewhat neglect Ceeile, his vivacious girl wife. She suffers innumerable disappointment? in broken engagements and grows somewhat dissatisfied with her lot. Through Maud Leigh, her chum, she meets Richard Burnett, an actor, and matinee idol, and is flattered by his marked interest in her. Maude casts Ceeile for a leading part in an amateur theatrical performance she is giving, and Burnett, infatuated by Ceeile, agrees to direct the production of the play. Ceeile displays vmdrcamed-of talent in her emotional part, and Ross, greatly pleased and proud of his wife's success, sees no dangei in Burnett's frequent calls. The inevitable happens—Ceeile's head is turned; she grieves over a lost career and is finally persuaded to elope with Burnett. Deserting her little child and her husband, she enters the theatrical field, which she imagines is her real sphere. Five years pass and Ceeile has attained the dazzling height to which she has aspired, namely that of theatrical fame. But she now knows that stage life is only a mirage, and her life is one long regret. For the rest ot the story you must see the picture.

DOROTHEA SPINNEY. To-night at the Ciood Templar Hall the recital will be "The Princess-Iphi-geuia in Tnurcs." The play is a beautiful fairy tale, a romance that ends happly. Iphigeuia is supposed to have been killed hy her father, but in reality she is saved and placed as priestess in a temple on a desolate shore. Hers is the terrible task of taking part in the death rites of strangers east on the shore. Her own brother comes to this savage place and we have what Aristotle calls "the most jeantiful recognition sceiw ever written." Dorothea Spinney's voice is compared by the Oxford Times to the two most notably fine speaking voices in England. The whole recital is described as harmonious and inspiring. To give a play '»s this play is given is a work which will rarely or may never ho again undertaken in this century. The box plan is at Collier's.