ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE, EOOTH TARKINGTON'S "THE TURMOIL" .TO-MORROW. The next big attraction at the Empire will be the screening to-morrow and following two nights of Booth Tarkington's great story of American life and endeavor, "The Turmoil." Booth Tarkington in "The Turmoil" makes quite a serious effort to hammer home the fact that wealth and social position are not always the wonderful things they seem from the outside. The wealthy boy is willing to give up his riches, and the society girl to give up her position for love's sake—and though troubles come t in the turmoil of the city, they prove that determination, courage and affection are strong factors in true success and happiness. Altogether it is a good story well told. J EVERYBODY'S. LAST NIGHT OP THE WONDER PICTURE "THE AUCTION BLOCK." The remarkable Goldwyn picture, "The Auction Block," a most powerful dramatisation of Rex Beach's famous novel of the same name, drew an overhouse at Everybody's last night. The leading theme of the play is the similarity between the slave mart of ancient time and the marriage market of our great modern Babylon and the part of the heroine, upon whose peerless beauty much of the effect of the drama depends, is very adequately filled, both ae regards her good looks and her histrionic, .powers, by Miss | Rubye de Remer, £■ girl of the Ziegfeld Follies. The scene at the Pittsburgh steel mills, when a huge crucible of molten metal overturns, with swiftly fatal effect, and the rail "on the Tenderloin gambling-hell are most realistically portrayed; while startlingly intimate pictures of the New York underworld are also screened. The whole production is most lavishly and effectively staged, and the cast is an ..exceptionally strong one. The heroine, sold by her unnatural parents to the life of a chorus-girl in a sumptuous cabaret patronised by the wealthiest and smartest sets in New York society, and married without love to a young millionaire "drunk as a lord," seems to be on the high road to ruin; but her sheer grit and sweet innocence of soul, even amid such scenes and in such untoward circumstances, eventually pull both her and her husband safely out of the maelstrom. The story is wonderfully well told, and the rapid unfolding of the plot was followed with the keenest interest by the great audience. "The Auction Block" shows again for the last time to-night and in view of the certain rush for seating accommodation intending patrons would be well advised to book their seats for the performance. '