ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1919, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. "TilE BELGIAN" TO-NIGHT. A war picture which is surprisingly absorbing quite apart from the war interest is showing at Everybody's tonight and to-morrow. It is entitled ''The Belgian" and is a U-S. Exhibitors' release, with Walker Whiteside and Valentine Grant respectively, as the hero and heroine. There is a very beautiful love-story woven through it while the background is made up of a series of war incidents which deal chiefly with the spy system. Incidentally it ■ reveals some of the ingenious devices which spies resort to. The scene opens in Belgium where the hero is a fisher lad with a genius for sculpture. He is discovered by art experts and goes to Paris, where he forgets the sweetheart of his more humble days and gets into the toils of a woman who ia a spy. Ijf'.tpr he returns to Belgium and in the fighting he is blinded. Then it 13 that his littie sweetheart nurses him, and he unaware who his nurse is, dictates to her his love letter to the other woman. It is difficult to imagine any more pathetic situations. How lie recovers his sight, finds out the other woman's treachery, and how his earlier love thus reawakens, is ah idyllic romance The settings are very fine and the supports very convincing. There is a wonderfully human note through it all. THE PEOPLE'S KITTY GORDON IX "THE PURPLE LILY." The cast of "The Purple Lily," a World drama to be finally screened tonight at the People's, is an effective one, being led by Kitty Gordon and including Frank Maye and Muriel Optriehe. The story tells of the wife oi a Canad'an backwoodsman who, wearied of the monotonous round of the "North Woods" and who committed the folly of listening to the lure of a man who promised life and excitement and "niot.v in the eitv. There fife many dramatic situations and the p?ay moves, :i! it eon<ist.nii.t «peed to the end. The programme includes the latest (official) gazette, travelog and comedy, GEORGE WALSH. TO-MORROW AN'D WEDNESDAY George Walsh in "This is the Life" has now arrived and will be presented to-morrow and Wednesday for a twonight season only