ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1918, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE LAST NIGHT OF "THE GUARDIAN." To-night will see the final screening at The Empire of the fine World feature, "The Guardian,'' in which June Eividge, Montague Love and Arthur Ashley lave the leading parts. Tiie story shows how the guardian of. a beautiful young yiri has a rather shady past, but has completely reformed, until blackmailers pi. their heads together and drive him back to his old life ill the slums. The tables are finally turned on tiie blackmailers in an unexpected way, and the story ends happily. Tin; supporting films Include the tenth episode of "The Secret Kingdom." TO-MORROW—VIOLA DANA IN A METRO PLAY. The attraction for to-morrow will be tiie appearance of the sweet little star, Viola Danu, in tiie Metro play, "A Girl Without a Soiil," which shows tiie life of a girl who has no talent except being sweet and wholesome and in .some circles is considered to be ''without a soul " The new programme also includes the h'-g circus rilin "Peg o' the Ring." EVERYBODY'S. LAST NIGHT OF TIIEDA BARA IX "THE VIXEN." The big crowd in attendance at Everybody's last evening were tieated to a sumptuous dramatic and pictorial feast per jmedium of the Fox feature "The Vixen," in which the popular Tlieda Bars assumed the leading role. The passion for power is the ruling motive in the character of Elsie Drummond, the part Tlieda fiara takes in this picture. Elsies main idea in life is the conquest of men who interest her, and who, she sees, can be useful to her in life. It is a theme that opehs up great possibilities and with the Aief part in the haficts of Miss Bara, and produced by a genius like William Fox it becomes a living heart-throbbing reality picture that wifl not soon lie forgotten by the crowds who witnessed the first screening last evening. To-night will be the final screening. TO-MORROW-'-'SUNLTGHT'S LAST RAID." Cyrus Townsend Brady, who has written many famous novels, is responsible for the splendid story of "Sunlight's Last Raid,' the Greater Vitagraph feature in which Mary Anderson stars tomorrow and Friday. It is the story of a society girl and a Western outlaw interwoven with a number of other interesting personages and is a picture that grips the interest with a grip like a vice.