ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. LAST NIGHT OP "PLAYING FAIR" AND "JACKY OF THE NAVY." Everybody's had a really magnificent [programme last night which included ! William Farnum in the fine Fox feature, "Playing Fair," and Margarita Fischer iu the Mutual de luxe star, "Miss Jacky of the Navy." No review of the story could do justice to either picture, as both stand out as bright shining examples of the high standard tlie leading picture producers have attained. The same programme shows again to-night and it should not be missed by any picture patron. TO-MORROW. JUNE CAPRICE IN "PATSY" AND "REAL FOLK." Another fine selection will be presented .to-morrow and Friday, when June Caprice features in the Fox comedydrama, "Patsy," and J. Barney Sherry in the great Triangle prize-winning drama, "Heal Folk." This is the picture which won the prize in America against fourteen thousand competitors, and it's a story human, delightful, thrilling, something to see, to talk of, and to remember. The current episode of the "Mystery of 'the Double Cross" will also be shown on this programme.

THE EMPIRE. LAST NIGHT OF "EMPTY POCKETS" Rupert Hughes' high-powered story of the New York millionaire who had a special regard for copper-haired women and was filially done to death, with a handful of red hair clutched in his hand, has, attracted big audiences to the Empire tlicp ast two nights.' This entrancing mystery story is full of a remarkable fascination and certainly holds the interest in no uncertain manner. "Empty Pockets'' will be screened again to-night, and this is positively the last occasion on which the picture can be shown in New Plymouth. COMING TO-MORROW. OLGA PETROVA IN A FIRST NATIONAL FEATURE, "DAUGHTER OF DESTINY." Madame Petrova's own company is an accomplished fact and her first superfeature will commence, a throe-night season at the Empire to-morrow. It is entitled "The Daughter of Destiny," and is in every way a masterpiece of art. The National Exhibitors' Circuit, which is producing the photoplay, consists of a league of all the greatest pic-ture-theatre owners of the American film world, headed by the master of them all, Rothapfel, the 'famous manager of . the Rialto, the leading picture house of modern times. Petrova's first drama is the sensation of the 1018 releases. GERMAN ESPIONAGE 'SYSTEM EXPOSED IN MOTION PICTURE. "THE SPY SYSTEM." An American's sacrifice of lifa and all it holds dear ty him, to save his countrymen and learn the secrets of the German spy system forma the theme of the stirring William Fox production, "The Spy System," which, with Dustin Far num in its lead, slioVs at .Everybody's Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday nights'and at a special matinee on Wednesday afternoon. Dustin Farnum, one of the few popular men stars of the screen, plays the role of Mark Qiiaintnnec, a man of wealth :nul social position, who undertakes the hazardous task of gaining a list of the Teutonic spies in the United States. Tn Berlin he finds it necessary to enroll himself among those spies before he can leayn where the hook containing (heir names is kept. Then he gets possession of it and sends it to the American Ambassador, while he himself is court-martialled. The odd feature about this thrilling drama is that it contains all the vigor and excitement nf war, without a single liattle scene being flashed on the screenRealising that the nnlilie has n surfeit of such views, the Pox Company has ar'•auaed its story in such fashion that it was found unnecessary to fire a single shot during the taking of the picture. The prices for admission have been fixed at Is (Id. Is, and fid, and seats may ho reserved at Collier's without extra charge.