ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. VAUDEVILLE TO-NIGHT. .Tames and Verna Bain commence their twonlfrht season of vaudeville to-night nt Everybody's. This talented pair of artists will mnj?e Iheir bow at 8.10 p.m. sharp, and occupy the boards for a full hour.. Speaking of tite performance given by "Tho Bain's" at Puller's Opera House, the Auckland Star says: "A triumph was scored by Verna Bain, a child whose wonderful facility as a dancer at once ushered her into the front rank of popularity. Featherlike she tripped out upon the stage and presented the "Rose Dance" with such striking srace and skill that applause was thundered out from every part of the house. Her light, vivacious stepping and toeing, and her charming deportment, render her work magnificent. ! Her presentation of the "Dying Swan" was | typical. One could imagine the meaning of ilier exquisite exposition without the aid of melody. The agonies of the timid bird after tlie second shot were depicted with a realism of which probably the little artist was unconscious. and when she bowed her head she was accorded a furore of applause. Then she gave a series of bright national dances, which demonstrated her marked versatility, and incidentally added to her laurels. Her father, Mr. Tames Bain, who has appeared with credit before numerous New Zealand audiences, buttressed the interval between the dance Items of his daughter, of whom he has reason to be proud, reproducing comedy quips and humorous songs and stories. He is Just as good as ever, and the audience was not sparing with ilfj plaudits. The box plan is now open at Collier's for to-night and to-morrow.

THE EMPIRE. "SUDDEN JIM." In the new programme screened to ft full house at The Empire last night Charles Ray appears as James Ashe, junr., in "Sudden .Tim," a Triangle play pictured from (lie popular novel and Saturday Evening Post story of the same numc, by Clarence Buddinglon Kellard. James Ashe, senr., known as "Clothes-pin Jimmy," because of his success as a clothes-pin manufacturer, gives young Jim fio,oou dollars, and tells him to play or work. The hoy has tlie itre of business in him, and he decides to take o/er his father's factory in a Michigan town, described as being inhabited by a dozen people and about 500 folks. There lie meets Marie Ducharme, a girl of strange, turbulent personality, who attracts him. In his fight against a combine of crooked competitors, he believes Marie has treacherously played him :nto the hands of his enemies. But in the supreme moment of his trial, when it appears that, his defeat and financial ruin certain, he learns that she has risked hi: life to warn him against the gang's conspiracy. The picture is filled with stirring scenes of action, as where Jimmie's men battle with the "hunkies" who have been spiking the logs at the instigation of Jim's rival, and the caucus meeting when Jim takes the platform with a little boy in his aims to prove the depravity of the man who seeks to control the town, as well aa the clothes-pin industry. There are other good films supporting the star, ail of which will be repeated 10-aigiit and to-morrow night.