ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1919, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. MAE MAJRSH IN THE GOLDWYN FEATURE, "MONEY MAD." Mae Marsh ia decorated with expensive dresses and splendid jewels in the Goldwyn feature, "Money Mad," screening to-night and to-morrow, at Everybody's, but she still remains the motit t winsome little charmer on the shadow stage. It is not she, but her stepfather who is money-mad, and with the assistance of a Hindoo servant, who exercises a malign mystic influence over him. He murders his wife ,to obtain her money. Mae grows to young womanhood and asks for' the wonderful pearl necklace which her mother had bequeathed her. Her step-father hands her what purports to be the necklace and she discovers it to be a fraud. The manner in which she and her lover trap the swindlers and also unearth the secret of her mother's death is very unique and constitutes this one of the most exciting of screen stories. There is a distinct element of eeriness running through it and the sinister figure of the Hindoo servant is a memorable one. The love .theme is charmingly portrayed apd the picture ends in a satisfactory manner. Mae Marsh excels herself in the richness of the dresses which she wears.

THE PEOPLES. BEAUTIFUL MAY ALLISON. "The Return of Mary," with charming ■May Allison as the star, is ft five-reel romantic drama of sparkling humor and delightfully original situations. Miss Allison is seen a young girl -who was supposed to have been kidnapped while an infant, and then returned to her family at the age of seventeen —the fact that she is not the lost child develops later in the play and leads to all mannar of complications which give Miss Allison unusual opportunity for her versatile talents. The part of Mary is particularly suited to May Allison who plays it in a vivacious and altogether winsome manner. To-morrow's new bill .presents Douglas Fairbanks in his latest Artcraft, 'Bound iq Morocco."