ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1919, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S.

NORMA TALMADGE IX M'HE MOTH" TO-NIGHT.

No picture was oyer m<..v appropriately t ", a !? c< f than the B°U'C. 'future "The Moth, showing at Every, iy ' 3 to-night and to-morrow night. 'faluiadgc plays the title part—the part of a wouldbe Cleopatra, trifling with fate and forevet in pursuit of selfish pleasure, regardless of the consequences. Her search brings her nearer and nearer to the danger mark, but as she flutters about the flame of her own folly the happiness she seeks recedes farther and farther from her. The story has immense emotional possibilities, and Norma laimadge can always be depended on to gat the full value from them. It is not till she turns from the frivolities of life to the sacred pleasure of her own children's company that she finds any contentment, and then she has no sooner found it than her past indiscretions threaten to recoil upon lie? and crush her. The climax is thrilling, and the dramatic situations are finely contrived. Elegance is an outstanding feature of the production. Elegance of dress and of picture. It ends happily, but not till "The Moth" has had her wings considerably scorched. The sixteenth episode of ''The Great Secret" is also showing with this programme.

THE PEOPLE' 3. PAULINE STARKE IN "INNOCENTS' PROGRESS.

Struggles and fights, whether they are seen in real life or reel life, are always very attractive and interesting to tho general public, and crowds always gather to see them. That is surely one of the reasons why the crowds are gathering at the People's now, for the feature of its bill is "Innocents' Progress," by Triangle. It is a picture which narrates not only tho struggle a man makes, but also that of a woman and a girl. The girl was at first under some considerable handicap, for her lot was cast amid staid people who held the view that a light heart was a sinful one. So she went to the city. The picture is made very interesting by the three fights of the man, the woman and the girl. Jack Livingstone, Pauline Starke and Lilian West are the three fighters. On the same bill are gazette, comedy and interost films.

PROFESSOR ANDERSON, HYPNOTIST. Many and varied have been the hypnotists seen in New Plymouth in the past, so probably the best introduction for Professor Anderson is the following report from a Wanganui paper: "Professor Anderson had another large audience in the Opera House 011 Saturday evening, when he gave the second entertainment of his Wanganui seasop. As on the opening night, he kept Ilia audienctf in perpetual merriment, while subjects under his control performed all sorts of ludicrous antics. But Mr. Anderson has a more serious purpose than providing mere amusement, and he loses no opportunity of impressing upon his audience the wonderful powers for good which hypnotism has when properly and scientifically applied. To demonstrate its efficacy in the relief of pain and as an anaesthotic, he', on Saturday evening, put a young man into a hypnotic sleep in view of the audience, with' a view of having some teeth extracted. Following the professor's suggestions that there would be 110 pain, and but a minimum of bleeding, Mr. E. P. Pridham, dentist, then extracted two teeth from the patient, who, on being awakened, declared that hj» was not even aware that the extraction had been performed, and who has since asked that another tooth bo taken out, which will he done to-night if Mr. Prid.; ham considers that it 3 removal is? 1 ad' visable."

Professor Anderson commences a threenight season in New Plymouth at the Empire Theatre next Thursday.