ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HAROLD LOCK.WOOD IN "THE HAUNTED PYJAMAS" AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. One of the most amusing and at the same time one of the cleverest motion pictures ever produced is "The Haunted Pyjamas," showing to-night and to-mor-row afternoon and night at the Empire Theatre. The story shows how Richard Hudson (Harold Lockwod) receives from, a friend in China a pair of silk pyjamas —which unknown to Hudson are bewitched. The pyjamas have the property of transforming the wearer into someone else. They fit all wearers and as soon a? the top button is fastened, the pyjamas change to black. Hudson becomes a Chinaman and causes trouble to his valet. The next to wear the fateful pyjamas is young Francis Billings who is spending a night at Hudson's. He changes to a pretty girl. Hudson is amazed on returning to his rooms to find the girl there quite at home and evidently not embarrassed, for although the appearance changes, the identity does not. Getting out of that difficulty another arises with big Jack avho pntsi them on and changes into Colonel Kirk land, but is mistaken for a desperate character wanted by the 'police. Complications arise all over the place, especially when Hudson meets the pretty girl and refers to the pyjama scene in his room. She is indignant but thinks it must be a joke. Her father, Colonel Kirkland returns, and is mistaken for the criminal and poor big Jack has a bad time trying to explain and get an explanation. At last the mystery is solved after one of the mo?.t remarkable and amusing stories ever shown on the screen. On the same programme there is the seventh episode of "The Secret of the Submarine" and a Topical Gazette. LAST NIGHT OF "JEWEL IN PAWN" AT EVERYBODY'S. Ella Hall will be finally seen to-night in the quaintly refreshing photoplay "A Jewel in Pawn." Nothing more pleasing than this story has ever been adapted to the motion picture drama and as "The Jewel" Ella Hall is sweetness and charm personified. No picture goer can afford to mi*s this attraction with its splendid uplifting moral, its mingling of laughter and tears, humor and pathos. TO-MORROW. Comencing at the matinee to-morrow Muriel Ostriche will feature in the clever World Film drama, "Moral Courage," a story of a rebellious marriage and,the results. On the same programme will be shown "The Cognac Mask-," the third episode of the master serial "The Iron Claw" and the weekly "Topical Budget."