ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1918, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. LAST NIGHT OF "SALLY IN OUR ALLEY." A well-known song provides the title for the splendid World film drama "Sally in our Alley," screening for the last time at Everybody'.* to-night. Muriel Ostriche is "Sally" arid this i 3 the best work she has ever done for the screen. Sally McGill dwells in Pigtail Alley and works in a factory. However, she .is very, lovely and she lias always dreams of something higher and finer. Through meeting with a woman of philanthropic ways, she gets a chance to be near to people whose lives are spent in ease and luxury, and partly through mischief, Sally gets the opportunity of making an impression on the heart of a young and rich society man. How she follows her destiny provides material for an admirable motion picture story. Citrlyle Blackwell is just as popular as ever in the part of the hero.

THE EMPIRE. ETHEL CLAYTON IN "WHIMS OP SOCIETY," AND THE KING'S VISIT. TO THE GRAND FLEET.

A big double programme is screening at the Empire to-night and to-mor-row, including Ethel Clayton in a big World film feature, "Whims of Society" and an official picture of the King's visit to the Grand Fleet. This supporting item on the programme is of quite unusual interest. It might be mentioned that it is an official picture taken of the only inspection which the King has made of the Fleet on its war footing aud it is therefore unique. As a spectacle it is most impressive to see the seemingly endless lines of grey seamonsters is to realise as never before the grim might of Britain on the seas. Among other features of interest are shown Admiral Beatty, the hero of its nation; Admiral Sturdee, the Falkland fight victor; such historic battleships as the Queen Elizabeth, which so many of our own boys were intimately associated with, and other warships wellknown for their part in the Battle of Jutland. The picture covers the.- full range of naval craft from-the modest drlftdrs to the majestic super-dread-noughts, and is indeed an inspiring sight. Those who see. it will realise what naval supremacy means and will go away with renewed confidence in our mighty navy and the incomparable men who form its personnel, while those who miss the opoprtunity will miss one of the finest spectacles of recent times.

THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS. The Fisic Jubilee Singers, the unique success of whose season in New Zealand some years ago will be remembered by music-lovers, are commencing a short season of two nights at the Empire Theatre on Wednesday, August 7. The enterprise ifs under the direction of Messrs C. A. White and Marshall Palmer, and the personnel of the company is well up to the standard by which they attained previously, such a measure of popularity.. The programme consists of characterististic ju-. bilee choruses, glees, solos, plantation melodies, quartettes, coon songs, ragtime ditties, etc. The well-known lady baritone, Miss Belle Gibbons, is still a tower of strength to the company, and the music is in the capable hands of Professor C. A. White. The combination liavo just concluded a lengthy and successful tour of Australia. The box plan for the two night season ia now open at Collier's.