ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1918, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S LAST NIGHT OF "DEAD SHOT BAKER." To-night will be the final sreening of the exoiting Greater Vitagraph Western feature, "Dead Shot Baker" at Everybody's. This picture has all the thrill and fascination of the Western life worked into the story, and is a triumph for the producers. To-night will be the final screening. TO-MORROW. GAIL KANE IN "WHOSE WIFE." The star attraction for to-morrow will be the appearance of Gail Kane in a big Mutual domestic drama "Whose Wife", a powerful story of the lives of two men and one woman. This programme will also include the third episode of "The Girl and the Game." THE EMPIRE. HAROLD LOCKWOOD IN "PARADISE , GARDEN." There was another record attendance at the Empire last evening when Harold Lockwood starred in the wholesome and vigorous Metro wonderplay "Paradise Garden." The story, as with all th*. Lockwood pictures, has been taken from a book, "Paradise Garden," by George Gibbs and is one of the popular novels in America this season. The picture will appeal both to those who have read the book and to those who have not. The former will be interested to see Harold Lockwood, the favorite Metro star, as the hero of the novel they have enjoyed, and the latter will like the story for its own sake. There are horses and dogs in this photoplay, and plenty of the outdoor freedom and snap that gives all Lockwood's production* an added interest. The picture arouses the question of whether it is wise to keep people in ignorance of the pitfalls that may beset them, or to warn and instruct them so that they may avoid dangers. In this fascinating photodrama the hero, Jerry Benham, is, by the terms of his father's will, brought up in entire ignorance of evil. He is carefully edu. cated, with the exception that all mention of women is left out of h>s schoolhooks. When he emerges into the world that other people know, his innocence has a rude awakening. He learns of women, and cannot distinguish between good and evil ones. He meets sorrow and disillusionment in some intensely dramatic scenes, and his soul touches the depths before he is able to readjust his ideas of living. But the Wholesomeness of his early training again asserts itself, and the question that each individual spectator of "Paradise Garden" must settle for himself is whether pitfalls should be pointed out, or disregarded. The supports include the stli episode of the thrilling adventure serial "Peg o' the Ring," and several other interesting pictures. The same programme will be repeated to-night, at the matinee to-morrow, arid finally tomorrow aight.