ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. ETHEL CLAYTOX IX "SOULS ADRIFT." Really original treatment of a wellknown theme murks the strong World film drama, ''Souls Adrift," screened at Everybody;s to a crowded house on Saturday. Ethel Clayton is the star, and she reaches the supreme height of her art in this play, which is crowded with powerful situations. The action opens upon a. luxurious pleasure yacht, whose saloon dedicated to riotous drunken revels- Escaping one evening, the hoYoinc coiiiOo upon the engineer on deck and - as he turns she discovers that he is the man to whom she had once been engaged. Suddenly the yacht rocks and the muffled roar of an explosion sounds, ancl this chance-met pair are the" only survivors. The picturisation of tho explosion is done with unique skill, as are the subsequent scenes showing the drifting boat in tho weed infested too calm tropical seas. The programme, which includes the second episode of "The Girl and the Game," will be repeated for the last time to-night.

THE EMPIRE. Douglas Fairbanks to-night in "DOUBLE TROUBLE." The worries ol a man who alternates between hero and villain are the main •eatures of "Double Trouble." the Triangle drama starring Douglas Fairbanks at the Empire to-night, Florian Amidon is a gentle, timid banker, whose accident invests him with another personality, and he becomes Eugene Brassfield, a sporting, unscrupulous, loud-voiced politician, who is, however, extraordinarily successful. Amidon's fiancee discovers him, and an original set of circumstances arises owing to the antics of the man. she thought so trustworthy and righteous. A medium is introduced" whose hypnotic influence switches Brassfield back to Amidon, and so on. The supP " rt !"f P letllr eß include the 14th episode ot -The Secret Kingdom," which'concludes a successful run next week, and a most entertaining number of the Pathe Gazette.