ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. The queer title of the latest Triangle drama, "Chicken Casey" showing tonight at Everybody's, gives no idea of the delightfully original nature of the plot. Dorothy Dalton is the heroine, and the quick changes of her impersonations are baffling. She portrays an actress who is anxious to take the part of "Rags, - ' a girl of the slums. The author, knowing her for a girl of weatlh and luxury, will not hear of it, and so Dorothy goes into the Bowery and puts up a remarkable "stunt" as Chicken Casey, a tough and altogether undesirable young person. Through an ingenious trick, she gets the author into a most compromising position, and the love story that develops is full of emotional strength. Charles Gunn as the hero, is the part to the life, and the supporting cast is notably strong. The •whole play is an interesting sidelight on the way things are managed behind the scenes in the production of stage plays. The scenes in slumland are vivid and interesting. The story is of a genuinely new type and it afforded Dorothy Dalton greater scope for her versatility than anything she has done. Supporting this fine feature are "Gaumont War Graphic," "Her Perfect Day," Keystone comedy; "Bravo Little Waldo," L.KOi comedy, and a cartoon novelty.

"ALIMONY" AT THE EMPIRE.

Particularly interesting was the picture drama screened at the Empire theatre last night with the title of "Alimony." It told a striking story of divorce methods in America, and made a terrible exposure of the harm that may be caused by lax divorce laws. It tells of a woman who values her husband purely for the amount of money she can obtain from him, and who secures a divorce for the sake of the alimony. There are some tense and 'thrilling scenes, and the staging is magnificent. Interwoven with the sordid story of the unscrupulous woman who places alimony above all other tilings, there is a beautiful story of true and abiding love, with the result that there is a happy ending when the evildoers meet their deserts, and the married lovers elope again. The principal actors in the drama are new to New Plymouth, and they showed themselves screen -'artists in the front rank of their profession. The p.fnry, the screening of which occupied tho best part of the programme, was followed with keen interest by the large audience present, and it is safe to say that it is one of the finest dramas yet shown locally. The balance of the programme is made up With the "Weekly Gazette" (Patho's) and "History of the War", No. 0. This programme will be repeated again tonight and to-morrow.