ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. LAST NIGHT OF "RASPUTIN, . THE black; monk." The inner circle of the .Russian nobility were vicious and profligate at the outbreak of war, and this fact was one of the principal causes of the rapid rise to power of Rasputin. ■ He taught among other things, the poisonous doctrine of free love, and encouraged license on the ground that anything dictated by nature was holy. The life and power of this imposter is graphically shown in "Rasputin, the Black Monk," the World film superfeature which is finally screening at Everybody's to-night. TO-MORROW. ZOE RAY, A REMARKABLE CHILD ACTRESS. A new programme will be introduced to-morrow for otic night only, when the child star will be a "Butterfly"' picture, entitled "The Circus of Life," intrqducing, a wonderful child actress named Zoe Ray, who has created a sensation in America. THE EMPIRE. JUNE ELVIDfIE IN PATHE'S "HISTORY OF THE WAR." The woman's side of an old problem is dealt with in /''Shall we Forgive Heer? the World film drama now screening at the Empire. The principal role is taken by June Elvidge, and it is justly claimed as her most remarkable performance to date. As the woman who had lived with a lover who entrapped her, and then, thinking him dead, had married again, her emotional power has full opportunities. Her husband worships her for her innocence as much as )ier beauty, and the dramatic strength of the situation is all the more intense when it is realised that any shock will send him blind. Arthur Ashley as the villain-expected, acts with grim power and relentlessness. ' The settings are wonderful, changing from the western desert, where there is a sand storm scene of great vividness, to the city of New York. Tlio supporting pictures include the first instalment of the great Pathe topical film, "History of the War," which will ho continued each week with a new phase of the present war. Other pictures are: "Her ,Candy Kid" (comedy), and the Patho Gazette. The full programme is showing again to-night and to-morrow.