ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S, MAE MARSH IN "ALL WOMAN.'"' As a working girl whc inherits a ramshackle country hotel and by her personality wins a bad town to a knowledge of better tiling's, Mac Marsh is in her element in "All Woman," the Goldwyn feature screening at Everybody's. Her wistful and appealing loveliness carries her through scenes of high emotionalism. "All Woman" to all of us brings a lesson of self-sacrifiee ana endeavor for the good of humanity. Another episode of "The House of Hate" in included on this programme, which is showing for the last time to-night.

J THE PEOPLE'S. OLIVE TELL TO-NIGHT. Is a woman's sense of honor greater than that of a man? is the question asked in the absorbing drama, "Secret Strings," tho new attraction at the People's to-night. Olive Tell, the lead in this fine production, is a young emotional actress of versatility and talent that serve her well in this, her greatest success. The picture, a combination of romance, mystery, .thrills, and laughter, deals with the dramatic events which follow when a girl of unusual beauty and charm finds that the man she has married is a smooth and unprincipled crook. Good supports are also shown, including gazette and the first instalment of "Capturing Wild Animals in the Rocky Mountains"; also a comedy, "Kids," by Christie films.

THE EMPIRE. COMMENCING TO-MORROW. "THE BETTER 'OLE." : lao. D. Chateau's International Attractions have the honor to present at the Empire Theatre to-morrow, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's celebrated picture play "The Better "Olc," which lias been running at the Oxford, London, for over two years, and is at present delighting capacity audiences in a triumphant tour of New Zealand. ' 'The Better 'Ole" is not a war story, but a living, breathing, human comedy in six acts, built on the famous "Fragments of France" from the master brain of Bruce Bairnsfather. Almost everyone knows that the wondrous "material from which Captain Bairnsfather conjured a family welcome in every nook and comer of'the globe had been woven into a drama, which for three years converted its theatres into temples thronged with crystal-gazers—-for this wonder-play is a crystal—wherein one sees the beauty, the tenderness, tho rare and radiant humor, the grim purpose, tho love of fellow-kind, and, above |all, the odd and indescribable sense of fun that, would stop to crack a joke at the portals of the beyond. This adventure of Old Bill's is only typical of thousands of incidents bred iu the Great War. but it conveyed the message of cheer, the doctrine of "carry on" to the men in the trenches, and, though but a modest romance, became a vital message at ft vital moment. This b,ing the first all-British picture production for four years, it is considered an historic event in the annals of the picture art and industry, and to avoid disappointment prudent patrons will doubtless reserve their seats at Collier's, where plans for the full season a--e now on view. Prices of admission are 2s Gd, 2s, and front seats Is (plus tax').