ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY'S/ NORMA TALMADGE IN "THE SAFJETY CURTAIN." Norma Talmadge has completely eclipsed all .previous performances in "the Safety Curtain," a Select Masterpiece, showing to-night and to-morrow at Everybody's, in which she is supported by Eugene O'Brien as a fascinating and handsome soldier. There are many thrills in the play, and the interest is well sustained right up to the last. Norma is seen as Puck, a dancer of the London music halls, and the part unmistakably calls forth her best work. She is married to the brutal "strong man" named Vulcan, who beats her unmercifully. A most realistic fire scene is shown in the theatre, and while Vulcan is apparently burned, Puck is rescued by an army officer home on leave. He eventually marries her and takes her with him to India, where she becomes the topic of conversation amongst the regimental "cats." Her drunken husband claims her, and she leaves her soldier to obey him, but fortunately the plague then raging removes the only obstacle to a lifelong happiness, and she finds it in the arms of the man she loves. The production is on a par with the acting, and some fine emottional scenes are opportunities for the star to display her unusual ability.

THE PEOPLES'. THE FAMILY SKELETON. Starring the wonder boy of tlie screen. Charles Ray, and pur own girl, Sylvia Bremer, who lias made good in pictures in America, "The family Skeleton" offers a fine diversion from the usual run of melodrama. As Billy Bates who inherits his father's millions and .the family curso also Ray gives a fine performance, while Sylvia Bremer as the good woman Poppy Drayton, who brings about his reformation, is charming to a degree. To-morrow's new bill presents another Thos. H. Ince super feature, "A Desert Wooing," starring Enid Bennett, also "The Bailroad Raiders" No. i, entitled "A Race For A Fortune."