ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE. HAROLD LOCKWOOD IN "THE AVENGING TRAIL." Beautiful snow scenes abound in Harold Lockwood's newest Metro wonderplay, "The Avenging Trail," a five-act drama of the lumber camps in the North woods, based on Henry Oyen'a novel, "Gaston Olaf," which commenced a threo night season at the Empire last night. The scenes were obtained in the White Mountains of New Hampshire where Mr. Lockwood, Director Francis Ford and over twenty members of the Metro Company spent three weeks' time staging exteriors. Most of the outdoor scenes were layed with the ground covered with snow, from a foot to eighteen inches deep, and with the snow flying before the camera. The tramp of the lumberjacks over the trails through the forests with the branches of the tall pines and fir-trees laden with snow, and the scenes of the lumberjacks cutting timber and transporting it on sleds to tho railroad spur, are some of the snow views that will delight the eye of the lover of the beauties of nature. "The Avenging Trail" is showing again to-night and to-morrow night.- ■ EVERYBODY'S. j LAST NIGHT OP BESSIE LOVE. IN j "STRANDED." | Bessie Love as the little trapeze artist and do Wolf Hopper as the old actor captivated the audience at Everybody's last night in tho Trfangle feature "Stranded." It is the romantic story of the people who work behind the lijmelight, and full of heart interest when the old broken down actor comes to light and plays the greatest pitrt of his career in saving the happiness ot the little girl he has befriended. It is a really charming story, beautifully told. To-night will be the final screen-1 i®g. TO-MORROW. MOLLIE KING IN "THE SUMMER GIRL." A World film feature, "The Summer Girl," will bo the attraction for- the ma'-inco anil evening sessions to-mor- j row. Mollie King and Arthur Ashley are the stars of this picture, which win bo screened 011 Saturday, only.- ! THE BATTLE OF ARRAS. DEPICTING THE COLOSSAL GERMAN RETREAT. The third of : the New Zealand Government war films, taken by the British War (.lllice with the object of preserving for posterity a record of the glorious achievements of the armies of the Empire, will lie screened to a New Plymouth audience at Everybody's:. next Monday and Tuesday nights and at a matinee on Tuesday afternoon. The subject of the present picture ]S "The Battle of Arras," which depicts the colossal German retreat to the Hindenburg line, the greatest defeat inflicted on the Huns in the West. The film unfolds some, realistic infantry, attacks, with assistance from the tanks and parks of artillery. It is more interesting than either "The Battle of the Ancro" or "The Battle of Messines," as there are more close up views of the preparations for war than contained in either of the previous pictures. The screening nights will be limited to Monday and Tuesday only, and tho matinee Tuesday afternoon. There will be no increase in the prices of admission, but intending patrons will bo assisting l some part of the patriotic movement by attending as a substantial part of the gross receipts go to the New Zealand Government, who in turn distribute the amount amongst the different patriotic movemea""'