ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1916, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CnAELES CHAPLIN AS "THE 11KEMAN.'? < AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. 'AI»o«i; on a in every hundred years or thereabouts a clown or comedian arises whose art is do exquisitely popular that he becomes almost ail institution. Folks universally laugh nt him while, ho lives, and three or four generations of folk hear iiim talked about after he is dead Charlie Chaplin is this century's clown. Ho has not national or racial delimitations. They laugh at him in England and France just as they do in America, Australia or Fiji for that matter. To dislike Chaplin require, what is known in England, ar an upper middle class mind, which is at onco conventional and timid. Generally speaking it might he said that 05 per cent, of the millions who go to pictures are Chaplin enthusiasts while the remaining 5 per cent, who, perhaps, have not seen his newest successes are a little bit afraid he is not proper. Chaplin's latest effort to amuse his admirers throughout tlif. world is "The Fireman," and he 'has succeeded in being as funny, if not more so. in .this as in any of his previous features. In addition to thL big comedy, lovers of drama will find much that is interesting in the exclusive British four-reel j'feature, "The White Hope." Adapted from the famous English novel of i the same name by W. R. H. Troubridge, this red-blooded manly ?torv of the white man who fought and won for tlic credit of his race and the love of ft woman, is *'ie kind of picture that appeals to a' The fight scenes are remarkably . 'stk, from held under the management of George Gunthor, one of the most highly-regarded coiored boxers of the. English ring. The lastest war film tc hand will ba shown and should prove as populai sa ever. Other fine items are also on the programme which will be shown to-night an:l to-morrow night only Sent* may be reserved at Collier's.