ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE'S. | LAST NIOHT OP LILA LEE. A delightful (ale of pirates and a limit for buried treasure! That is the kind of motion storf that Lila Lee, ■the lovely Paramount, screen star, has to portray in "Such a Little Pirate," Of course, there is action and excitement in the photoplay—there always is when pirates are about! But the appeal is largely to that, entrancing sense of fun and simple lmmanness that are the characteristics of all the roally captivating people you know. It is the simple story of simple people that always lias the greatest heart appeal. Lila and her old grandfather, and the solemn old ourang outang, who takes his part in such a cunning old way—and "Bad-eve" and his fellow villains—all arc there. .The "High Diver's Last Kiss," the screaming Sunshine comedy, is also on the bill. BIG MATINEE TO-MORROW. A big special matinee programme will commence at the People's to-morrow at 2 p.m., comprising the great favorite, Roy Stewart, in his big western drama. "Untamed," and the latest up-to-the-minute Keystone comedy, "Dimples and Dangers," and latest Gazette. EVERYBODY'S. "ROMANCE AND ARABELLA." To describe Constance Talmadge in and Arabella" as saucy, piquant, daimty, is but faint praise. Once again this delightful comedienne provides an instantaneous antidote for the grouches. As a young and charming widow, who, after the prescribed period of repining, begins to sit up and take notice and think of her departed as her "ifirst," she threads her way through a succession of lovers, each of whom seems to be the antithesis of the preceding candidate. Her girlhood sweetheart, Bill, whom she refuses, having known him all her life, realising her desire for romance, undertakes to supply it, along with a choice selection of exponents. They roll up as suitors in order—first a cave man, then in rapid succession, a youth, a cubist, a scientist. Bill's hope dwindles away when she arrives for the wedding to the. latter, but the scientist forgets the wedding, being engrossed' in an essay, and Bill comes into his own. Each syitor brings with him a different atmosphere, and provides a new sheaf of ludicrous situations, and the comeilv in all is one of the sprightlicst and most entertain- , inff ever screened. The screening nights (m> to-night and to-morrow at Everybody's.