ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. "CHEATING THE PUBLIC" TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. The remarkable Fox melodrama "Cheating the Public" opened to a full house at Everybody's last night. The strong features of the production, aside from the highly thrilling scenes, of which the race at night between an automobile and an express train is one, arc its admirable portrayals of human nature — its realism. The story itself is a stirring one of the experiences of a factory girl who is ground down under the heel of the business oppressor. Seeking to befriend a crippled child in the factory, she is soon struggling in a whirlpool of trouble which eventually sweeps her into the very shadow of the electric chairThroughout the production runs a strong love theme and there are enough thrills presented to make a dozen successful melodramas, but the punch of the picture consists in bringing home to every one who sees it the realisation on every hand and that suffering child laborers are to be found in every industrial district. ""Cheating the Public" shows at the matinee this afternoon and for the last time to-night. The night programme starts at 7.30 with a five-reel Western feature "Untamed," starring Roy Stewart. THE PEOPLE'S. LtLA LEE AND' SUNSHINE COMEDY. A special feature on to-day's and tonight's big bill at the People's is the big Sunshine comedy, "The High Diver's Last Kiss." Pirates, kidnapping, the threat to shoot the old seadog if he would not, say where the buried treasure lay—all these .ind many more sensations are to be found in the photoplay, "Such a Little Pirate," showing at the head of a fine new programme at the People's Theatre. Lila Lee, the beautiful girl star that Paramount has discovered, is even more delightful in this drama oi humor, and swift action titan she was in "The Cruise of the Make Believe." A charming girl in a charming stage setting. Out on a storm.swept sea in dripping oilskins, the girl hangs on tightly to the wheel and steers the little vessel to safety—and the treasure. Her excitement as they dig for it is as natural as any girl's would be at the sight of a parcel from the jeweller's with her name' on it! Her old grandfather is a magnificent character, and Sinbad, the ourangoutang, who, too, has his part to play' is as funny as a circus, for all his solemn looks. The matinee to-day commences at 2 p.m.