ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

-EVERYBODY'S JLARA KIMBALL YOUNG IN "THE REASON WHY." Elinor Glyn attained fame as the author of "Three Weeks," and followed it up by the equally notorious novel "The Reason Why." This has now been set to the screen by the Select Corporation with no less a star than Clara Kimball-Young. It is showing at Everybody's to-night and to-morrow and constitutes a powerful attraction. Jn fact, for combination of author, star, producer, and plot it would be difficult to And an equal The story tells of a young Russian woman married, to a brute of a husband. He is killed in a fracas, and, with her small child, a boy, she goes to England, masquerading as the nioce of a scheming financier. • He bargains with a man of title to pay his bills if he will marry the niece. The marriage is arranged, because the two people when they meet find that they mutually love each other. But each believes the other to have married merely for convenience The wife repulses her husband and refuses to be more than wife in name only He in turn discovers the child, which she had not revealed, and unaware of her previous marriage he thinks the worst. The setting is thus perfect for one of the most dramatic series of situations ever screened. aDd Clara Kimball Young does .superb work. The dresses are ornate and the production is more than up to the select standard

THE PEOPLE'S. FATTY AKBUCKLE AND BILLY BURKE. An enormous success is the big curTp;>t bill nt the People's, presenting the fat comedy king, Koscoe (Fatty) Arbueklo, in "The Cook," his latest Paramount gaiety film in two gigglesome reels, and the adorable Billic Burke in a very forceful story of a girl's fling nt life. The vivacity of the plan and the humorous situations from the natural unfolding of the plot make it a particularly desirable subject for Miss Burke's style of acting. Thomas Meighan is the faithful lawyerlover, who prevents Irene from wrecking her life, and brings her to her senses. He will be remembered for his fine work opposite Miss Burke in "The Band of Promise" and "The Mysterious Miss Terry." To-night and To-morrow are tHe final screenings.