ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

COMMENCING TO-NIGHT. "THE BETTER 'OLE." The romance of Old Bill and his two friends Alf. and Bert. Bill is married, Alf's girl has jilted him for a special constable, while Bert has an impressionable heart and flits from flower to flower. Old Bill catches sight of a spy and follows lip the clue, with the result that he unearths a plot to blow up the bridge after tho French troops have passed across it, thus cutting off their retreat. He goes "Over the Top" at night to catch a spy, and finds him in a ruined building waiting for the signal to blow up the bridge. After dealing him his quietus, Bill prematurely sets oil the explosion, before the troops start, and saves the day .On getting back to the trench he is arrested, and the following morning is tried by emirtmartial. Just then the French General comes in to make enquiries about the soldier who saved his men, as he has received information from one of the estaminet girls that it was the "old walrus," and bill is decorated on the spot .The three musketeers then get leave for Blighty for a month, and on arrival Bill finds that his wife Maggie, has bought a little jmh jfor him, which she has christened "The "BStter 'Ole." All the neighborhood is there to welcome them, and the vicar presides at a merry social of welcome. All through the play are sandwiched Various touches of humor, while here and there genuine pathos appears, while the spirit of the Old and the New Armies pervades the whole atmosphere. "The Better 'Ole" shows to-night, again at the two sessions to-morrow, and Monday and Tuesday nights . The box plans .ire at Collier's, and intending patrons should not delay in reserving their seats.

EVERYBODY'S. "TANGLED LIVES." The Vitagraph drama entitled "Tangled Lives," is very appropriately named, since it deals with one of the most curious tangles of several people's lives that fate could very well have devised . Harry Morey plays the star part and is supported by Betty Blythe as his faithless wife, and Jean Paige as the girl who genuinely loves him and with whom he at last finds happiness. The picture shows .the course of the wife's attraction for another man and presents a strong portrayal of the havoc which lier infidelity causes . An additional complication is introduced by the fact that the wife of his best friend is in love with him and wishes him to be false to that friend .It is when lie refuses that she causes him to discover .the truth by luring him to a place where he finds his own wife in her lover's arms. The story moves at a rapid pace and keeps the interest at full pitch, while the ending is convincingly done. The settings are excellent and the dresses are all of rich society design. The screening nights are to-night and to-morrow at Everybody's, '

THE PEOPLE'S, LAST NIGHT OF ,OLIVE TELL, Beautiful Olive Tell, the bright Metro star, screens finally to-night in "Secret Strings," a vital story of strong dramatic values, in which a beautiful and determined woman outwits a band of master tricksters . Janet Newell (Oliye Tell) discovers too late that the man she has married is a crook. Tho succeeding events lead up to a fine climax. The supports complete a fine entertainment. Elsie Ferguson in her latest Artcraft, "The Danger Mark," is .the big attraction for to-morrow, commencing at the matinee at 2.