ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A SPLENDID PICTURE AT EVERYBODY'S. A splendid novel, by Hamlin Garland, lias been picturised in a form which haa earned lavishing .praises from American critics in "The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop," the Great Vitagraph production screening at Everybody's for the last time to-night. Edith Storey is the heroine, and as the patrician daughter of a great Washington politiican, she is well nigh perfect. Antonio Moreno, as the manly young officer whose duty conflicts so cruelly with his infatuation for the heroine, is splendid, and might well have stepped out of the pages of the book. The play is remarkable for the peeps it gives of Indian life, and for the genuine emotions it arouses of sympathy and feeling for the troubles of a dying race. There is none of the usual red painted and obviously false native Indian about the play, and the mob scenes are almost terrible in their reality. The story concerns the attempts of a young officer appointed as a reformer to the command of a post in an Indian Reservation. He at once becomes the pivot of a whole series of plots and counter-plots, and her heroine is led to think that he is altogether in the wrong. He sticks to his guns, however, and eventually wins through. TO-MORROW The feature the change of programme for to-morrow is a big industrial subject entitled "The Eagles' Wings," dealing in a remarkaMe manner with the organisation of both capital and labor in America. Tiie story is grippingly interesting and the photography nears perfection. BESSIE BARRISCALE AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. "THE LAST ACT." A Triangle drama on a modern marriage problem is brilliantly played and produced in "The Last Act," which features Bessie Barriacalo and Harry Keenan and commences a three-night season at the Empire to-night. Special mention must also be made of May Alien who portrays the little servant whose fortunes rise along with those of her clever mistress. The story concerns a young actress who finds herself at the last desperate resort. She is befriended by a woman who quietly saves her from what she had contemplated, and from that moment Fate takes a hand and her fortunes suddenly become brilliant. Then she meets a married man and the two fall In love hopelessly. The climax is a strong one for the actress finds that the woman she was ahout to rob of husband and happiness is the very one who had been her benefactress. The play is splendidly produced,; and contains some striking scenes from stage life. Noticeably, there is a boarding-house for theatricals where many types are seen all collected from real life. The programme includes a screaming two-reel Kevstone, "Maggie's First False Step," and the Patlie flavette.