ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1919, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. I A. Awirting masterpiece, chock full of scenes. Amazing skating 2" ' Stunts. Thrilling adventures in an ar- %' setting/is ft mild description of f"] "The Frozen Warning," a picture show- i jfeg at Everybody's this afternoon and | i•' tonight and featuring the famous vaudeviSe performer, "Charlotte." Until you >' Me Charlotte you can have no conception of what ice-Bkaters are capable of. - She cuts fancy figures, and pirouettes on " the tip of one skate, and twirling so ' fast without moving her position on the *- ice that she resembles a top. She clearly demonstrates her right to be heralded £■• as the most spectacular skater the world has discovered. Thousands of people have travelled half way across the world specially to see the marvellous Charlotte in vaudeville at the New York Hippo- ; drome.- You have only to come to Everybody's to see the same breathless . performance. "The Frozen Warning" ' shows this afternoon and to-night only. THE PEOPLE'S. GEORGE BEBAN. , 1 ■ To-night's new bill at the People's is i. beaded by the latest Paramount picture "One More Amerjehn," a production A.-- stamped with the rare art of Beban. It : ' is a gale of laughter, then a tense tug at the heart strings, a sob, and a burst of joy.' Beban plays the part of an Italian immigrant and how he brought his little family to America after ft (treat straggle against a grafting politician. The programme includes the latest gazette, Burton Haiti |es travelog • : and "The Eagle's Eye" No. 2. The - ■ jnatinse to-day commences at 2 p.m. EMPTRB THEATRE. - L . "TABZAN OF THE APES." ' This remarkable motion picture from jgdpar Rice Burroughs" well-known^novel - was presented to a crowded house at the <, Umpire Theatre last evening. ■ - ■ The story takes the form of a jungle ' melodrama, in which every possible variety of thrill is crowded Into a Robinj ; gon Crusoe setting. It follows the adven- '' hires of a youth, who, when "'a baby is froip hip mother by a huge ape, Jji ittnd brought up in the Matter's native qannts. The boy is really the son of a nobleman in England, and a faithful who haß escaped from a band !a* 'of Arab Blavers, Teturns to England and £/ qr.itrn /org to restore him to his rightful now' ion as peer of a wealthy estate. J *Hp i- foiled at every turn by the false he.r to the title, who is finally reduced l-' to defeat. Meanwhile, the real heir is } f<''l in the jungle, where he spends his •' (iv. > netting the rescuing parties, sent pfov his benefit, ont of their difficulties. . hj: fiie of these fights with the entire he saves a bieautiful maiden from i"i.ipioiiK lion, :iml a charming jungle lance fpiirtly develops. The hist reel ri-i-e, wi'li a sentimental fade-out in S tthndi the unwitting heir finds that ignorU v*r ■ j S bliss and that there are many afe- Al ! <v omnensations for a title and |L e ' f VI 1 " England. "Tarzan of the Apes" gf' " ''.'■'{inctly different in every way from ||£.. Si**' other conception know to picture jST.-"(.i"'™*, j, n( [ ag s ,| C f, j). IS confidently t y, !, ' ,n, ™ended to amusement seekers. j§ggjsg'"* fi'tm shows at a matinee this aftergßlfeo'i, wftmencing at 2 p.m., and again HramMtte luttime this evening.