ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A STUPENDOUS FILM TRIUMPH AT EVERYBODY'S, ALICE BRAD® . IK" "THE DANCER'S PERIL." Everybody's was literally packed to the dnora oil Saturday evening when the gorgeous and sumptuously elaborate World-film feature was presented for tho second time at this favorite house. Clna fine drama features Alice Brady, and it is easily tliis young film start greatest success. Notably in the sump, tuouli costumes of the Russian ballet, she looks to be beautiful, her lissom flours and beautifully moulded limbs allowing to. great advantage. The play; has a more than, usually strong plot. Alice Brady is tho daughter of. a Russian grand: duke, who leaves her to be brought , utrby the matron of the Imperial Ballet i s - becomes the premiero danseuse, and- although forbidden, escapes to Uns, to appear there. In Paris she is enticed by ujx old roue into his apartments. and is in, dreadful danger. Prom this she is rescued by her mother, a famous dancer well-known to all Paris, , fin . al of tho play are most dramatic, and Alice Brady's acting ia superb throughout. The programme also includes a very fine topical film and a Keystone two-reel is a positive side-splitting scream and a remarkably clever comedy into the ba?» gain. This splendid programme will be repeated for the last time to-night.

THE GREAT WAR FILM—"WAR AS IT

j REALLY IS." SHOWING AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. The truth about the trenches and theactual fighting the front ia clearly ! depicted in Cilptain Donald Thompson's remarkabio war picture, "War As it Boally la," commencing at The Empire to-night. As official photographer to thd French armies, Captain Donald Thompson had unique opportunities of filming unique events. His daring becamo the talk of the front lines, and many of tho scenes are taken only a few feet from the German lines. Shells can he seen bursting only a. short distance from tho -camera, blotting the view out with smoke. The famous "Curtain of Fire" can be seen driving thousands of Germans towards the French trenches to be made prisoners. The armored train views are quite new, and are a tremendous revelation of. the range of devices and mechanism employed in the titanic The heaviest artillery struggle of Verdun is shown in vivid detail, with great gulls of the Allies (the largest in the world) in action, and armored canal boats at work. A battle in .the clouds between a German and French airman is one of the startling new scenes. To get this fight Captain Thompson took tho .place of the machine gunner in a French aeroplane and went up several thousand feet. This left the machine defenceless, and a German aeroplane is seen (and filmed) approaching with its Iron Cross design. Another French aeroplane darted in and attacked and Capt. Thompson ascended to 10,000 feet and photographed tho light from above. It is a wonderful piece of daring and a splendid piece of photography. \ '