ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1917, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CLARA' KIMBALL YOUNG SHOWS TO PACKED HOUSE AT E*/£3YBODY<S. Everybody's Theatre was packed to the doors on Saturday, the draw being Clara Kimball Young in "The Foolish Virgin." The cast is a powerful one, headed by Clara. Kimball Young, as beautiful as ever, and suited by a role of supreme pathos and intensity. The story is based on the disillusionment of a girl who has found her "knight errant" in the first man who makes love to her, marriej him, to find that he is a moral leper, money-mad and criminal in his intentions. The scenes that follow her discovery are terrible in their pathos, and Miss Young's acting rises to the very highest level. The photography is particularly beautiful, and there are some wonderful scenes when the action changes to the wild mountain country of Kentucky. The heroine was too modest to be an artist's model for his Madonna painting,, but she was willing to trust her youthful purity to a man she had only known a week. Sad for her was to be the disillusionment of her marriage, and tragic the consequence of her hasty nulling into the great contract of life. Then it is borne in upon the piteously treated bride the horror of her position and the real meaning of her mistake. Supporting this all-star film is the latest Topical Budget and a highly delightful comedy. Intending patrons are reminded that to-night will be the last occasion this great attraction will be screened.

ENID .BENNETT AT THE EMPIRE IN "HAPPINESS" TO-NIGHT. A trio of delightful artists appear in the sparkling Triangle play, "Happiness," at the Empire to-night. Sweetly captivating Enid Bennet is the heroine, with dear little Thelma Salter in support and Chas. Gunn as a manly hero. The final step on to the movie throne is made by Endi Bennett in "Happiness." Nothing so quaintly fascinating, so full of winsome fun and sudden touches of real pathos has ever been screened as this smart story of "America's Greatest Snob." Little Thelma Salter is the secretary for the Soapsuds trust, of which Enid Bennett becomes the vice-president', and her dimples and smiles are just as charming as ever. The plot is ingenious, and throws some delicious fun at thoae alarmist folks who see the hand of the white slaver in every evening that a girl is out after half-past seven. This charming photoplay will be screened to-night' and to-morrow only.