ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1918, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. FIXAL OF "THE IRON CLAW." The main attraction at Everybody's oil the present, programme is undoubtedly the final episode of the remarkably, successful serial, "The Iron Claw," and| followers of this picture are warned that to-night will positively be the last screening Huge crowds were turned away on Saturday, so intending patrons would do well to be early to-night if desirous of securing a seat. Other pictures include "The World Against Him," a fine World film feature, starring; June Elvidge and lid. K. Lincoln, and tile first ep'sodc of the sensational railway serial drama, "The Girl and the Game," in which the leading part is played by the intrepid Helen Holmes, "THE BARRIER,'' TO-MORROW. Reviewed in America as "one of the best five pictures ever made," and with the hall-mark of success from Australia, Rex Beach's novel and p!av, "The Barrier," reproduced as a seven act superfeature under the personal direction of the author in association with the notable American picture producer, Edgar Lewis, will be screened at Everybody's for a two-n:ght season, under the direction of E. J. Carroll, next Tuesday and Wednesday and at a special matinee on Wednesday afternoon. Thrilling and intense, "The Barrier" is crammed with suspense and action in typical Alaskan scenery. This stirring play of the struggle? of (he blood of man against the towhinps of nature and natural race prejudice, a barrier that separates him from his beloved, pulsates with interest from beginning to end. ft appeals to the sentimentalist in the tragic story of Folcon Doret, the French Canadian of the great heart who sings the bleak shadows away, and it appeals to the out-of-doors man in the excitement of adventures and man-to-man conflicts. "The Barrier" is a film that will make an irresistible appeal to all classes and creeds as a wholesome, inspiring, and faithful interpretation of Rex Beach's fine book. Special music accompanies the film. The ■box - plans for the season are now open at Collier's, where dress circle seats can '"be reserved without extra charge.

THK EMPIRE. OLIVE THOMAS JN "BROADWAY, ARIZONA" The gay life of New York shows its brightest side in the third and best play which stars Olive Thomas, "Broadway, Arizona," screening to-night at tiie Empire. Tiie title is odd, but perfectly clear to every American. Arizona is the land of deserts and wild waste spaces, and Broadway is the street in New York which blazes with moving giant electric signs and keeps awake all night. The heroine is a Midnight Follies star, who plays a cruel joke for advertising purposes on a love-struck millionaire cowboy. She reckons without the Arizona man's nerve and resourcefulness, and later, when she falls ill and lias a nervous breakdown, he returns to the attack. She laughs at him and is promptly kidnapped. Tiie rest of the story is a wild whirl of adventure, and every turn of the tale brings a surprise. Olive Thomas is supremely charming in every foot of thi 3 masterpiece, and finally establishes herself as a real star of the first magnitude. The other characters are splendid, and special marks should be awarded to the cowboy lover and his ranch manager, who is full of daring and also a quaint, dry humor. Scenes in New York's roof gardens and pleasure resorts are followed by wonderful peeps at the .broad places of America's desert country. Olive's frocks are something to bo wondered at, ranging from the gauziest of stage dancing raiment, boudoir frillies, and convalescent robes, to the picturesque Indian costume which she finds herself forced to put on when she is kidnapped- The snpporting films include the big pantomime production of "Robinson Crusoe," and the 13th episode of "The Secret (Kingdom." SPEOJAIi MATINEE TO-MORiRjCKWi •JOHNSON CRUSOE.'? There -will he a special matinee tomorrow afternoon at 3.15, when the attraction will be the big pantomime picture, "Robinson Crusoe," which will bo supported by a programme of epetial brilliance, including "The Riot," freely conceded to "be the funniest Keystone ever made, "Mabel's Nerve," another Keystone starring Mabel Normand, and a screaming two-reel Fox cowboy picture, "Tom and Jerry Mix."