ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HAROLD LOCKWOOD AT THE EMPIRE. The new programme showh at the Ehipire last liight comprises a Splendid lot of Well-balanced films that should easily fill available seat throughout thfe season's screening. The management has made a point of securing a remarkable star subject without allowing that fact to interfere with the excellence of the minor films, so that the bill, as a whole, is absolutely without a llaw. The leading film is "The Square Deceiver," another Metro supel-' feature, with Harold Lockwood, a lion among movie actors, holding the chief part of Billy van Dyke, a multimillionaire. Billy is the target of operations for a great number of for-ture-hunting young women and designing inotlifers, who lead him a life of Stress from constantly having to scheme to escape their matchmaking. Just how he does escape entanglement is alone rich enough in copy to make the film an excellent one, but the plot goes further than this. Billy catches a glimpse of a wonderfully beautiful young woman, Beatrice Forsythe, as she drives through the park. This attractive young person sets Billy's heart aflame, so that he gives chase but loses sight of her in the traffic. She is just a visitor to New York, and later when Billy meets her, she floors him by being completely indifferent to his charms, both personal and pecuniary. The young millionaire eventually gets employment as her chafTeur, and the subsequent events are romantic and charming to a degree that fits the situation. The photography, as is usual with the best class of Metro films, is irreproachably, and the staging is perfect in every detail. Supporting subjects include "Peg o' the Ring," No. 3; "Co-Op. Weekly War News," Topical; "Small Cat Animals," Nature Study; and "The Lady Detective," comedy. The same programme will be shown again to-night.

FINAL OF BIG PROGRAMME TONIGHT AT EVERYBODY'S Picture-gAers have their Inst chance to-night of seeing the splendid doublefeature programme Which delighted a large audience at Everybody's last evening. William Fox photoplays have always been an attraction here and their latest release, "The Broadway Sport,'' is one of their best productions to date. StUai't Iloltnes is here featured and this popular actor gives a masterly interpretation of a difficult role. The story is a good one and is lightened by many touches of quaint humor. The other feature of the programme is a production of an entirely different nature. This is the Triangle release "Chicken C'asey," in which the favorite actress, Dorothy Dalton, appears to great advantage. This picture has also the eharm of novelty, and as there are. no inferior Triangle plays (some are better than others) further comment is superfluous. "HUSBAND AND WIFE." To-morrow's change is headed by a Brady-World film drama, entitled "Husband and Wife," in which Ethel Clayton and Montagu* Love are starred, assisted by Madge Evans, Holbrook Blinn and Gerda Holmes.