ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1917, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LAST NIGHT OF CARLYLE BLACKWELL IX "THE SQUARE DEAL" AT EVERYBODY'S. New York's colony of artists and literary workers is the scene of "A Square Deal," the World Film play screening for the last time at Everybody's ■ tonight. The drama is full of strong situations, its most powerful incident'bein.' the. success of a bold experiment in ridding a friend of his utterly frivolous and worth-less wife.. Carlylo Blackuelt is the hero and acts with his usual charm. June Elvidge is an altogether lovely heroine, and is rapidly making a place for herself in the topmost ranks of film stardom. Muriel Ostriche, as the j'young society girl who is thrown by a designing mother into the arms of a.man she does not really love, is dainty as always, and the whole east is good.' Tim photography in Washington Square is particularly fine, and there are sonu? splendid scenes throughout the film'of fashionable--New York life. The supports include a good Topical Budget..": humorous comedy entitled "Troublo for four," and a beautiful scenic "Through the Goulet Passes." '•■:./. TO-MOR'ROW. / A fine Blue-bird photoplay, •"1"' Clock," featuring KranklynFanium, w;'.. be the attraction for to-morrow. Ow'.w; to the. arrival of a series of big feature; this picture will be shown to-morro -. only. On Wednesday and Thursdav Mary Miles Minter will be featured in the great Mutual star drama, "The Innocence of Lizette," one of the best pictures to date in which this popular young star has appeared.

DOROTHY DALTOX- AS 'WLD WINSHIP'S WIDOW" AT THE EMPIRE , TO,NIGHT..

A beautiful young widow, who believea tbat her late husband was the paragon of all virtues, is portrayed by Dorothv Dalton in "Wild Winsh'ip's Widow," the brilliant Triangle drama screening at the Empire to-night and to-morrow. However, the chance snapping open of a drawer reveals a seen ted slipper, a bundle of letters, and the late Mr. Winship's shrine ceases to be a place of worship. Then Dorothy looks round to find that the real man who has loved her for years is very much infatuated with a young and pretty girl. The heroine acts at once. Her widow's weeds are dropped, and she dons forthwith some amazing and pretty frocks, and joins in all the i'un and flirtation of the district. The scenes oi the rich .society of the Southern States are marvels of lavish staging and magnificent dressing and sotting, and the hunt ball is one of the most elaborate indoor scenes ever put upon the screen. There are also some hunting and driving spectacles, and Dorothy Dalton is a perfect .horsewoman. In'the scene at the lonely lodge where the heroine is stranded with a partial stranger, the terrific storm scenes are the subjects of some very new and original study in. effects. The whole play is a masterpiece. A very fine, picture of the' Christehurch Grand National Steeplechase 0 f ]i)]7 j s also screening, and shows the race clearly from start to finish, also the great, smash in the Grand National Hurdles.