ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE. OLIVE THOMAS IN "INDISCREET CORINNE." AN UNRIVALLED SUCCESS. Olive Thomas finally crowns herself as the queen of the'art of imparting the joy of life in "Indiscreet Corinne," the Triangle drama screened to a full hoiise at the Empire last night, She is the daughter of society parents, she . has' plenty of money and friends, but she yearns for something different. She wants to have "butter, sweet memories,' 1 and "purple regrets," and she is found devouring a spicy novel entitled "Stolen Sweets." With the aid of,. a_ delightfully daring French maid, Corinne gets herself into a whirl of trouble She answers an advertisement for two girls with pasts f and tells the most exciting, story of her dreadful amorous' adventures. She subsequently becomes a masked dancer at a fashionable restaurant, and causes a New Y"6rk sensation. She acquires a "past" with startling rapidity, a husband and: oth.er odds and ends before the close, of this rapid and fascinating story.. A wonderful "Salome" dance is one of .the titbits of Olive's performance, awl the whole of her dancing 1 in the.."Caf© Bacr chus" is a revelation. The cabaret sets are startling and altogether novel. The mystery is exceedingly clever afid the solution is a breath-taking surprise.; "Indiscreet Corinne" is showing again to-night and to-morrow night. The programme also includes ' the second series of the . big Pathe topical picttire "History of the War."

EVERYBODY'S, „ • A BIG DOUBLE STAR PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. "THE RESCUE" AND THE "PURPLE' DOMINO." A brilliant Blue-bird star feature "The Rescue," will be introduced on the new programme at Everybody's tonight. It is a. powerful and interesting story showing the folly of a man and a woman marrying and expecting to be happy while each deceives the other — with the best of intentions. The ml - understanding upon which all t'---'trouble is strung is an unnatural nr. A newly married man might elect . take the cure for dipsomania wii.noliis wife's knowledge, but ha woi,;.: hardly patronise an institution on houseboat anchored at the foot of hiprivate grounds. The manner in which the cute doctor's wife is made to contribute to the mistake that sends the couple into the divorce court and her explanation comes in at the end of the picture. The story starts after the divorce and shows how the. wife's scheme to save a young girl from marrying her ex-husband brings about a reconciliation between the estranged pair. The programme also includes another big attraction that is chock-full of exciting and sensational happenings.

COMING THURSDAY. JUNE CAPRICE IN "A SMALL TOWN GIRL." Auother big double feature programme will be screened next Thurs-" I day and Friday. June Caprice will feature in the brilliant Fox film "A Small Town Girl," and Mildred Manning will be seen in the Greater yitagraph star feature," "The Secret Husband." There will be no increase in the prices of admission. "THE BANG BOYS ARE HERE." ' The above company, which consists mainly of returned soldiers, are to appear at Eltliam on- Wednesday and Waitara next Friday The performance is bright and breezy, and goes with a good swing from curtain rise to curtain fall. The revue was written by one of the returned boys taking part, and depicts life, as the New Zenlanders spend it sometimes, in and out of the trenches in France. After witnessing the performance one no longer wonders where Captain Bruce Bairnsfather got material for his now world famous, "Fragments from France." ; r