ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

•TOTS iB PANS fWV" AT THE EMPIRE MATINEE TODAY. One of the best and tightest coined? dramas ever conceived is the five-reel Gold Rooster feature, "Pots and Pana Peggy," screened to a good attendancß at the Empire last night. This splendid film will he the chief feature of the matinee programme this afternoon aui should prove a source of delight to both children and parents. Included on the programme at the matinee will he the Co-Op. Weekly, an absolutely side-split-ting Fox comedy, "An Aerial Joy Ride," and a Christie comedy, "Love and the Iceman." TO-NIGHT. "POTS AND PANS PEGGY" AND "THE CHILD OF DESTINY." To-night the brilliant double programme with Gladys Hulette in "Pots and Pans Peggy," and "Irene Fenwick in the Metro photoplay, "The Child of Destiny," will be repeated for the last time. This is one of the best programmes shown for some tiipe at tli» Empire and the quality of programmes at this house is well known to pioture goers. Commencing from to-night the prices of admission to the theatre will be sixpence to all parts.

CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG AT EVERYBODY'S—"THE FOOLISH VIRGIN." Thomas (Dixon, the author of "The Birth of a Nation," "The Clansman" and other great modern novels produced a thrilling and dramatic story in "The Foolish Virgin,' whose picturisation by the Clara Kimball Young Corporation will he screened at Everybody's matinee to-day. The cast is a powerful one, headed toy Clara Kimball Young, as beautiful as ever and spited by a role of supreme pathos and intensity. Conway Tearle who played opposite to her in "The Common Law," Paul CapelHni who was ' also in "The Common Law" and "The Dark Silence," heads the supporting players. The story is based on the disillusionment of a girl who has found her Errant" in the first man who makes love to her, marries him, to find that he is a moral leper, money mad and criminal in his instincts. The scenes thftff follow her discovery are almost terrible in their pathos, and Miss Young's acting rises to the very highest level. The photography is peculiarly beautiful, and there are some wonderful scenes when the action changes to the wild mountain country of Kentucky. The programme also includes a very interesting Topical Budget.