ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1918, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OLGA PETROVA TO-NIGHT AT EVERYBODY'S. "BRIDGES BURNED." As Mary O'Brien in ''Bridges Burned," her latest Metro wonderplay, showing to-night and to-morrow at Everybody's, Madame Petrova has one of the most interesting and entertaining roles of her career. From the time that she enters the play as the daughter of an Irish gentleman in straightened circumstances, until tlie interesting conclusion of this remarkable story, Madame •Petrova holds attention by her remarkable acting. Her vast knowledge of European social life and customs serves her in good stead in "Bridges Burned," and in the different phases of life that aro shown she fits with a perfection that makes the play a living story and not an acted one. Madame Petrova wrote "Bridges Burned" and in so doing created an ideal picture play for herself. J_n support with this picture there will also be shown the Co.-op. Weekly War News and a Metro comedy entitled "A Modern Hercules." Seats may be reserved at Collier's.

GREAT SPORTING DRAMA AT THE EMPIRE. •'THEY'RE OFF," The consistent merit of the popular Triangle picture plays was again in evidence at the Empire last; night, when the usual Monday change of bill was ushered in, in the presence of a, very large audience. The Triangle film was a sporting drama entitled "They're Off." In this picture Enid Bennett has the role of a young girl whose father has by unscrupulous manipulation gained possession of an old southern mansion. Randolph Manners, the young owner, whose family have lived in the liouso for years, is ejected and takes temporary residence in the training quarters of the estate. There ihe girl meets him and learns of her father's methods. She is attracted by the dignified attitude of the young Southerner and determines to help him out. By disguising herself in jockey attire and riding in the most spectacular race ever witnessed in the countryside, she achieves her purpose. The picture has many humorous touches of Southern life, introducing a company of picaninnies and their mammies. The race track episode has been so staged that it surpasses in thrilling suspense that of any similar action recently screened. Other good items on the programme are "History of the War," No. 8, Pathe Weekly Gazette, and an interesting travelogue, "In Eastern Texas." The same films will be repeated to-night and to-morrow.