ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1919, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. 1 MATINEE TO-DAY "VIEWS OF THE GERMAN MIKE." The usual matinee -will be held, at Everybody's this afternoon when in addition to the brilliant Triangle drama, "Her Decision," the programme will also include a number of views of the German mine washed ashore on the O&kura beach this week. Very few people have had an oportunity to visit the scene and hundreds will no doubt be interested in views. Tho pictures give a clear ii'c if the size and general appearance of uie mine. The same programme will be repeated again for the last time to-night.

THE PEOPLE'S. WILLIAM S. HART. To-day's big new attraction at the People's is the latest Artcraft production, "Selfish Yates," a fine reel superfeature presenting William S. (Mill) Hart, In the picture industry "Selfish Yates" stands as one of the greatest characterisations William S- Hart has ever attempted. That vice which perhaps ig responsible for more evil than any other human failing known, selfishness, is bam',, and shown in its true form in Wm. S. Hart's new Artcraft picture, "Selfish Yates." Imagine Bill Hart as a confirmed egotist, whose motto is "Myself first, second and always, and 'to the devil with all others." Yates' thcory 'is that his own personal interests should engage his attention solely and refraining from interfering in the business of others, he sternly prohibits anyone else from interfering with his. One day a young woman, a simple sweet innocent girl, enters into the sphere of his existence, and by her purity and gentleness effects a spiritual regeneration in this selfish frame, and brings him to a realisation that the love for a noble woman has a subtle power to the force of which egotism and selfishness must succumb. This is not accomplished without trouble on his part, but after a series of thrilling incidents, some of them unusually dramatic and pathetic, and he cornea to a realisation of his great love for this girl. "The Eagle's Eye" and Bray Pictograph axe also on the bill. A series of views of the German mine at Oakura will also be shown to-day and to-night.

EMPIRE THEATRE ■ KENNEDY COMPANY. NEXT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. All lovers of the musical art in its highest as well as its more popular form will be interested in the return of the talented !Kenne3y Company after a lapse of five years. They have been playing in the Dominion for some weeks now, and have had a rousing reception accorded them everywhere. The combination ia certainly a talented one. Keith Kennedy is now widely recognised as one of the foremost violinists. He studied under the great Professor Sevcik (Kubelik'a master) in Vienna, and was so highly esteemed that the professor often employed him as preparatory teacher. He next studied Uarmony and composition in 'London under Coleridge Taylor and Gordon Saunders, and played at the Congress of Universities with Sir Frederick Bridge, and then toured England. The London Daily Telegraph refers to him aB "an artist of exceptional ability," and the Melbourne Age as "a violinist of the highest order." Among his numbers will be Mendelsohnn's "Concerto" (finale) and Tartini's 'Devil's Trills Sonata." Miss Bronwen Fairhall, soprano, has just completed a three years' scholarship at the Sydney Statj Conservatorium under Mr. Roland Foster, and she is perhaps the most brilliant suprano that Queensland has produced. In addition to these and other singers and instrumentalists, the Kennedys present a very clever Scotch humorist, Ad Cree, who wag described by Melbourne Argus as a "peerless humorist." The two nishts begins at the Empire Theatre next Friday, and the box plan will open at Collier's next Wednesday.