ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1919, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

I THE PEOPLE'S. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS. To-day's attraction at the People's presents the wonderful Artcraft kiddies along with the great athlete, Douglas Fairbanks, in the big sensation "Mr Fixit," Every scene in Mr Fixit contains a delightful thrill. There is a remarkable slum scene in which Fairbanks rescues a girl from a crowd of gangsters, after a desperpate battle, and goes down the side of a house on a clothesline. When he is headed off in the street he utilises a swaying electric banner to gain the other side of the street, and swings himself to the ground from window to window, "The Eagle's Eye," Burton Holmes, and latest gazette are> also on the bill.

EVERYBODY'S. "THE CRISIS." i. MOTION PICTURE MASTERPIECE. "The Crisis,"' presented last night at Everybody's, is a very big production, splendidly photographed, and interpreted by a company of fine actors, of whom special mention should be made of the late Mr S. D. Drove as Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Satchi plays the parttof the hero of Winston Churchill's famous novel of the same name, and Bessie Eyton is the Virginia CarveL The film adheres closely to the story of the novel, and presents a fine historical record of the period of America's greatest crisis. Stephen, a Northerner, first aroupesi, quite unconsciously, the antipathy ol Virginia by out-bidding everyone else for a slave girl which is being sold. This antipathy continues to be evidenced in various other happanings, and i saccentuated by their different political outlook. It is a flue romance, in which the two stubborn hearts come together in the end. Bessie Eyton is delightful as Virginia Carvel, proud, petulant, self-willed, yet at the same time with a sweet charm that appeals to all. This magnificent production shows again this afternoon and fiualiy to-night.

EMPIRE THEATRE. "THE MAN WHO STAYED AT HOME" A big super-attraction was presented at tho Empire Theatre last night in "The Man Who Stayed at Home," a screen adaptation of the famous drama of the same name, equal in all respects to the play which met with such success when Btaged in the Dominion recently. Tho play is in many respects a very notable one, being full of many thrilling incidents. The well-known English actor, Denis Eadie, takes the leading role, while Alma Taylor, another artist of the first rank, has been given an excellent opportunity to demonstrate her rare attainments. The theme of this super-feature is set in a select boarding establishment on the East Coast of England. The proprietress is a Mrs Sanderson, and her son, Carl is an Admiralty clerk. Mrs Sanderson's first liii3band and the father of Carl was a German general, and Teutonic "Kultur" holds him in fealty as it does Fritz, her head-waiter. The Germanic quartet is completed by the governess, Fraulein Schroder. On the other side are Christopher Breut, Mrs Miriam Leigh, a charming widow, Mr John Preston, a pompous country J.P., and his daughter Molly, between whom and Brent there is a prospect of a felicitous future. Brent is by no means the fool that he appear? to be, and discovers such things as n wireless installation hidden in a fireplace, and a lot of pure-bred homing pigeons. After the situation fully develops, it is a clear case of diamond cut diamond—Brent plus Miriam Leigh versus Carl and Fritz. A feature of special interest in this photoplay are the scenes in which the British Navv take part, when the fate of an enemy submarine is made plain to nil, when Jack trains his gmi3 upon it. This fine English picture screens again this afternoon and finally to-night.