ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1918, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EKpay- WITHER One of the most sensational fite. achievements jet screened in the Dominitw was aaora for the first time at Everybody's Theatre last night before a large audience. It is released undei the title of The Enemy Within" and ] the well-known champion boxer, Mr. Beg. L. ("Snowy") Baker, in some very fine athletic feats. Only too plain 1 is it to see that the remarkable feaia accredited to him are not the "tjlt-the-camora" style. These things actually are performed. This is Australia's test all-round athlete's first appearance on the "silvery sheet," and if he sticks to it he will maie just as great a success of the stage as lie did of the ring. The picture is not a war drama, but a thrilltag story of internal plotting and treachery. No one but his "chief" knows the reason wly Jack Airlie has returned to his beloved Australia. As a Special Agent, it is Jack's duty to capture a certain spy and his gang When out for a drive, Jack pickß up a little girl who has been knocked down by a careless driver. He takes the child to her home, and there meets Brassekj one of the ringleaders of the gang ha is oat to disband. With the aid of a professional African tracker, whom lie haa trained to he a det&tive, .Jack, after a gripping fight with font men. is abfc\tp follow the man who !• [making his fiiial attempt to blow up the principal buildings and wharves in the city. An eighty-foot dive into the flurgiing waves to aave the girl he loves, a 300 ft climb down the cliffs on a slim rope, the most terrific '"all-in" fight between one man and four ever filmed, a leap from one car to another at full speed—these are only somo of the actual feats performed by Jack in his attempts to stamp out the spy menace in Australia. After a series of hair-rais-ing events, Jack wins through, and at the same time gets the girl who was his playmate in childhood. The end is most remarkable, and the scenes are very pleasing- That well-known Sydney autre*? Miss My Rochefort (now Mrs. Rock Phillips), who ha 9 been off the stage for so many years, capably supports "Snowy," aa also do Lily Mallov and John Faulkner A good picture depicting what women are doing in the factories for the war completes a "well-worth-while" programme. "The Enemy Within" is being screened by arrangement with Mr. W. A. Low. It will be shown at a matinee to-day, and finally •to-night To-morrow night "The Enemy Within" will be shown at Waitara, THE EMPIRE. "THE HOPPER" A PINE TRLAWVLE DRAMA. The feature attraction at the Empire tonight and to-morrow will be the unique Triangle drama "The Hopper." The plot is novel, full of humorous situations, and will entertain any one with a relish for a well made and unusual story. "The Hopper" is a reformed house-breaker, who marries and settles down to chicken fanning, and who consents to return to his old profession, and "turn a trick" to oblige a young married woman who has married against her father's wishes. The old gentleman and herb, usband's father are collectors of antiques, and have quarelled over the possession of an ancient Chinese vase. "The Hopper" steals it as requested, and his act is the means of patching up the quarrel between the two families. It is all so brightly told and so cleverly acted it will prove a most diverting picture. The second episode of "The Great Secret" also shows with this programme for to-night only.