ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE. FATTY ARBUCKLE AND "THE PENDLETON ROUND-UP." AT THE MATINEE. An all.comedy and interest, programme has been arranged for the Empire matinee this afternoon. The pictures to be screened are as.follows: Co-op. Weekly (topical), "Out for the Coin" (Christie comedy), "The Pendleton Round-Up" (star sporting), "Raffles, Gentleman Burglar" (two-reel Keystone), Fatty Arbuckle in "The Tell-tale Light" and another- Keystone "Ambrose's First Falsehood." It is a programme that will give both kiddies and adults an afternoon of unrestrained merriment. TO-NIGHT-ETHEL BAf.RYMORE IN "THE LIFTED VEIL." "The Pendleton Round-up" and ''The Lifted .Yeil," starring Ethel Barrymore, will be finally screened to-night." Both pictures are worthy of special mention in their respective class and will no doubt- attract another full house to-night. EVERYBODY'S. ETHEL CLAYTON & MADGE EVANS IN "THE WEBB OF DESIRE." "The Web of Desire," which heads tli» bill at Everybody's, has Miss Ethel Clay, ton as the star, assisted by a particularly clever child actress, Madge Evans This World production unfolds a line plot, constructed in a remarkably clever way, and so real as to need but the breath of life to make it recognisable as a common part of human experience. The tale is of the well-known husband, who neglects his wife for other pursuits, She in her turn finds other pleasure than that of the home. She learns to smoke, to drink, and the husband is annoyed. This is all very natural in the circumstances, and several bitter scenes pass between them. But the widening breach is at last healed by circumstances, for in a dazzling final scene (he wife dashes into a big business meeting and staves off ruin from her husband. Thf> story itself is true to life, and the settings are of more than ordinary beauty. There are two or three incidents in "The Web of Desire" that will iliold .any crowd spellbound. The supporting pictures include "The Vanishing Faker," the seventeenth episode of "The Iron Claw'' and as there are only three more episodes of this fasinating picture it is easy to imagine that there are some sensational happenings right to the final.