ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. "PLYING COLORS" TO-NIGHT. Bright and. original from start to finish is the Triangle drama "Flying Colors," screening at Everybody's tonight for the first time. William Desmond is most attractive in the leading role, and there are two pretty Triangle actresses in the cast. One of them, Golda Madion, is a Los Angeles society girl of quite unusual screen talent. The hero is a college graduate who finds that a clerk's job is unbearable, and his want of tact soon loses it. He hunts for work, then, and as a desperate expedient joins the forces of a private detective agency. He has an unexampled run of luck, and manages after startling adventures, to apprehend a long wanted and clever jewel thief. Thus tie house he had entered as a sleuth, eventually becomes I'ome for him, and the pretty daughter also falls to his portion. The film is remarkable for the wonderful athletic feats performed by Desmond, who now takes pride of place for physical prowess sjnong all film actors. Some of his stunts are almost unbelievable. Mary Mclvor as the pretty typiste jvho is annoyed at Desmond's misplaced chivalry, has a small role but it is supremely clever. The drama should BstaJblish Desmond as a star of the first magnitude. Snportmg films include "The Girl and the Game" No. 13, "A Maiden's Trust," a two-reel Keystone, and the Weeikly War Graphic. THE EMPIRE. .VIOLA DANA TO-MOEROW. Commencing to-morrow night at the Empire the management will present Miss Viola Dana in her latest Metro release, entitled "The Mortal Sin," a five part melodrama of unusual farce and power. During the past year since her association with Metro pictures Corporation, Viola Dana has made her greatest strides in artistic and emotional work. Such widely varying l roles as Evelyn, the Quaker girl in "The Light of Happiness," have alternated with echo, in "The Mower of No Man's Land," and Dorothea, m "Threads of Fate" Playing opposite her in the part of George Anderson, a struggling author, is Rofoert Walker, a favorite player, already known to Metro patrons i the world over. Mr. Walker has been seen in leading parts with Miss Dana in "The Light of Happiness" and "The Gatea of Eden."