ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LAST NIGHT OF "LAUGHING BILL HYDE." "Lavtghing Bill Hyde," at Everybody's, is one of those dramas with a direct heart appeal. It depicts an escaped convict doing his utmost to alleviate the sufferings of others at a great personal cost to himself. The part is very excellently porta-ayed by the leading pomedian of the New York Follies, Will Rogers, who was specially chosen for the part by Rex Beach on account of the fact that the author considered he was the living counterpart of the character. The Alaskan goldfields form the bacKground to the production-. Fine supports are also shown. The programme is distinctly popular, and screens for the last time to-night. THE EMPIRE. LAST SCREENINGS OF "THE BETTER •OLE." MATINEE TO-DAY AT 3.15. "The Better 'Olc" has proved to be the greatest motion picture success ever presented to local picture patrons, and will long be remembered for its quaint humor and direct heart appeal. Each night the theatre has been crowded in every part, and many intending patrons have been turned away on each occasion. To-day the management has arranged two sessions, the first at 3.15 this afternoon and the second and final presentation at 8 p.m. to-night. It is hoped .that tliese two screenings will enable everyone to view the picture, but the management advise all who possibly cau to attend the matinee session this afternoon, as the advance booking already points to an,other record crowd to-night . THE PEOPLE'S. •' WALLACE REID IN "THE SOURCE." To-night's big bill presents Wally Reid; in his big success "The Source." Just I a passing look of loathing from the girl fell upon the besotted aristocrat, but it turned him again into a man. Jiis.t a single word from her, but it stung him at least to wholesome shame. It taught him the two-fisted code of, the lumber camps- "Men don't cry; they get up and fight!" Fight he did. Not alone against degrading , habit, but against scandal and scorn. But calumny, treachery, and dynamite—these were ' nothing compared with a girl's smouldering contempt. Until, in one tremendous hour upon the raging river's brink, when men "saw red," his reformation was finished—and the girl was won. "The Railroad Raiders," Jester comedy, ana JJurton Holmes are also on the bill.