ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

BIG FEATURE AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. "ALIMONY," There is not a moment to think about the high cost of living when watching "Alimony," the super-feature now ■ing at The Empire. This is the first of the pictures released by the First National Exhibitors' Circuit, and if the standard set by this wonderful production is kept up, the new trade mark will be a welcome acquisition. "Alimony," as its names implies, deals with the practices that have grown up round the divorce courts in great, moderfi cities, and is a pointed lesson on the results of making divorce too "free and easy." A society beauty, who regards her husband simply as a banker, gets rid of him, but finds that the young clubman on whom her hopes were centred is too wise to cast in his lot with her. He falls in love with a sweet and innocent girl, and the thwarted woman sets about a plan of revenge. So ingenious is this, and so complete is the plan, for dividing the young couple, that it seems quite hopeless for things ever to right themselves. The settings are dreams of luxury, and the play is crammed full of sensational incidents. Two very beautiful stars head the cast. Lois Wilson, as the young wife, is adorable, and Josephine Whitel, is an alluring and dangerously attractive scheme. "Alimony" is i n s.even reels, but there will also .he shown the Pathe Weekly Gazette and the ever-welcome "History of the War" (No. 6).

A NOVEL FILM AT EVERYBODY'S. FINAL TO-NIGHT. A film picture distinguished above all others for its novelty and motif was screened to crowded houses at Everybody's on Saturday. The Brady-World Film Company have indeed produced an interesting drama in "A Girl's Folly," a story dealing with the lives ami doings of real film artists, the principal characters being enacted by Robert Warwick, .lune Elvidge, and Doris Kenyon. Directors telling the actors what to" do, actors not doing as they are told, the secret jokes and by-play" that the stars indulge in while waiting for their call, the dressing room s and homes of the film stars, actors and actresses at lunch, scene-shifters turning a revolving stage, foiics diving into the pool provided for making comedies, are some of the interesting scenes of studio life that are seen in this picture; and, apart from all this, the story is a good one. Mary Baker, a pretty country girl, is sick of her country lover and becomes infatuated with a moving picture star whom she sees acting in a picture which is being produced near her home. She foes off to the city when the picture company leave their country scenes, and she sees the whole picture business at work. Finally, through the influence of the star ('Driscoll), rhc is entrusted with a rol* in a new play. Then Driscoll breaks the news to her as to what price he expects her to pay, and she agrees. Driscoll has a sweetheart who is a woman of the world (June Elvidge), and a struggle takes place Finally, the arrival of Mary's mother at a riotous dinner party reveals the truth to Mary o! where her life is leading her, and she returns to her lover, Johnny Applebaum. "A Girl's Folly" will be finally screened to-night. To-morrow another Triangle triumph will make its appearance—viz., Dorothy Dalton as "Chioken Casey."