ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

I THE EMPIRE. ETHEL BARRYMORE IN "THE LIFTED VEIL" AND "THE PENDLETON ROUND-UP." Metro more than maintains its reputation with the magnificent screen version of Basil King's great story, "The Lifted Veil," which commences a three-night season at the Empire to-night. The story ran through McClure's magazine, and when published-in book form was an immediate success. The story is human—it deals with human frailties and problems—with human weakness and strength, with human sin and On the same programme is the first parfj of the wonderful film, the "Pendlotorl Round-up," about 2000 feet showing thousands of genuine cowboys, Indian j Scouts, rough riders, "cow-girls," stage cpach drivers, doing as a matter of course some of the most daring feats possible to imagine. "The Pendleton Round-up" is a big Western holidayreal westerners from the big ranches and cowboys from the ranges meet in keen competition in the feats of ski!! and strength which are their daily occupation. Buck-jumping, "bull-dozing,' roping wild steers, and a hundred and one exploits which hold the spectator breathless, are shown in rapid succession, Even if you do not like the cowb.iv ti pictures, nor appreciate western drama, you cannot help being stirred to enthusiasm by this wonderful exhibition. EVERYBODY'S ROBERT WARWICK tv "twtc MAN WHO FORGOT.' TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW. "The Man Who Forgot" introduces a ; situation which is quite original to the , screen, and also uses the current th>--of national prohibition as a motive in the story Robert Warwick has the name role, and opposite him as heroine is Doris Kenyon. "The Man Who Forgot" is first a whiskv drinker. Evidently he doesn't just drink the lionid, he gorges on it. and the result is loss of memory, Then, he regenerates and oecomes leader of a big movement aiming at national prohibition. But the other side —calling themselves free-thinkers or temperance most probably—has learnt of this man's empty memorv, and trades on it. A woman from the opposition party boldly s'eps forward and claims him as her busband. He cannot see his iw-r tn <]• her claim, for, of course, he has no remt'mbrance of ever having seen the lady before, and even to the girl whose love he reciprocates he cannot deny this thing of which he has no knowledge. From this nasty situation everything is left in the lan of the eons, who, as usual, find ,i wn.v out. The nlay abounds in winning incidents, and its mountings are more than interesting. It is supported by several other films, each of which covers a different class of subject.