ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1918, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LAIST NIGHT OF "ALIMONY" AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. To-night will be the last opportunity picture-goers have of seeing the first of the "National Exhibitors' Circuit" great productions, under the title of "Alimony." This picture is a marvel of costly production and beautiful settings and the story is intense and gripping. It deals in a vivid manner with the Divorced Court practices that have grown round tho vicious, free and easy marriage tribunals of many modern cil.ies The story was written by a Divorce Court reporter and is full of real scenes of actual happenings. "Alimony" occupies nearly the entire programme, tot there are gome intensely, interesting war pictures as well. HAROLD LOOKWOOD TO-MORROW. For to-morrow's cliange the management announce the popular matinee idol, Harold Loekwood, in his latest 'Metro, entitled "The Square Deceiver." This is described as a joyous comedy of youth and love- It is all that and the bright and breezy fun of tho story is carefully brought out by contrasting it with heart interest scenes. This is Lockwood's first comedy under 'Metro's banner. EVERYBODY'S. FINE ALASKAN FILM. The film programme having for its star Dorothy Dalton in "Chicken Oasey," previously advertised to he shown at Everybody's last night, went astray in transit, and could not be screened, but the management was quite equal to the occasion, and it presented to the audience a substitute programme of rare outstanding merit. Tho feature picture was a Bluebird masterplay in five acts, entitled "The Greater Law," and this proved indeed a rare treat- j Myrtle Gonzalez, George Hernandez,' Gretchen Lederer, and Lawrence Peyton led the Reynolds Company through snow knee-deep, operating in the vicinity of Truckee, California, with peaks of the Sierras, clothed in frost and flecked with scattering fir trees and evergreens. The camera has caught some wonderously beautiful backings to a series of exciting episodes, reflecting the strenuous life in an Alaskan mining town. There aro but few interiors and these are used to represent sensational events that transpire in a cooiibdnation dance hall, saloon, and hotel at a time when the Klondyke seethed with the highest pitch of excitement in the first days of the rush for gold. Otherwise, the action is out of doors, amid snow and ice, calculated to be a psychological in cooling effects, and quite in keeping with the weather. The supporting films are good and well worth seeing- The same programme will be repeated to-night for the last, time. Dorothy Dalton, in "Chicken Oasey," will be presented on Thursday and Friday, together with the William Fox super J feature, "Broadway Sport," starring Stuart Holmes, making up a gigantic programme.