ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 May 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LAST NIGHT OF ALICE BRADY IN "THE WHIRLPOOL." Even at the risk of losing the happiness which she had snatched from fate she remained true to a former trußt and thus arose the powerful incidents which led up to a more powerful climax. The story is "The Whirlpool," a Select feature screening for the last time at Everybody's to-night. Alice Brady plays the part of the wife who was misunderstood-

THE PEOPLE'S. LAST NIGHT OF 'WILD YOUTH." The very fine Blackton-Paramount production, "Wild Youth," starring Louise Huff and Theodore Roberts, screens finally to-night at the People's. The programme includes the latest gazette, Bray Pictograph and "The Eagle's Eye."

"THE JUDGMENT HOUSE" TO-MORROW. TheN whole production is artistic in every detail, and one of the most costly and lavish six-part plays ever screened. The outstanding characteristics are the superb photography, distinctive Bubtitles, and the masterly direction. A real all-star cast, including Conway Tearle, ; Violet Hemming, and Wilfred Lucas, plus a famous author and an intense spectacular love story, makes this a picture of tremendous dramatic intensity and emotional power, that would be difficult to excel. The latest Mack Sennett comedy, "Ladies First," is also on to-morrow's bill.

EMPIRE THEATRE. "TARZAN OP THE APES." A rare treat, it is claimed, is in store for theatregoers in the pieturisation of Edgar Rice liurrough's famous book, "Tarzan of the Apes," which is to be screened for two nights and one afternoon exhibition at the Empire Theatre, commencing next Friday, Apart from the fact that a noble genealogical tree is provided for Tarzan aDd that his unscrupulous relatives in England scheme to sever his branch, n drama in itself, there are a hundred exciting incidents and episodes in the wilds of Africa, where Tarzan's daily companions are lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, crocodiles, gorillas, apes and the innumerable other beasts indigenous to the jungle. The story opens in England, where a young nobleman and his wife embark for West Africa on a mission connected with the slave trade It is in the sparious days of Queen Victoria. A mutiny on board results in the two passenger* being landed as castaways. They build a hut, in which Tarzan is born. Fever claims the mother, and after the father has been mauled by a leopard, a crowd of giant apes finish him off. and one of Hieir number, recently bereft of its own offspring, seizes the white baby, and carries it to her couch in the trees. A delightful romance is deftly interwoven and altogether the production is said to be distinctly unique and entirely different from anything previously conceived in screen history. Quaint music suitable to the different atmospheres of the drama accompanies the film. * The box plan opens at Collier's on Wednesday morning, where seats for dress circle may be reserved without extra charge. OwinT to previous bookings this picture will be available for New Plymouth for Friday and Saturday only. There will be no possibility of extending the season.