ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LAST NIGHT OF "ON TRIAL." Seven acts of the swiftest action and the tensest straight-to-heart interest ever screened are witnessed in the first National feature "On Trial," in which Barbara Castleton, Sydney Ainsworth, and little Mary McAlister are showing at Everybody's. The whole caste is excellent, not a weak point in portrayal being in evidence, though some hundreds i of actors take part. "On Trial" is surely a very great human story, and what woman will not follow in sympathy the career of May Strickland, who became the victim of a vile schemer as a girl; who found she had again to pay the same price to him years after to protect her husband and her child? Who would not readily sympathise with her agonised husband, wild set out, frantic, at night, to avenge the honor of the wife he loved? What more tense situation can be imagined than that of the distracted wife at the telephone, hearing the sounds of voices quarelling, a shot and a fall, not knowing whether it is her husband or her betrayer who has paid the price? "On Trial" is great melodrama, and entirely worthy of the masterly treatment it has received at the hands of actors and director. Tonight is the last screening occasion of this film picture. COMING TO-MORROW—CHARLIE CHAiPLIN IN "SHOULDER ARMS." Commencing at a special matinee tomorrow Charlie Chaplin will he starred j in his latest comedy success. Shoulder Arms." To enable everyone to see this comedy there will be a special matinee at 3 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday ns well as the evening sessions. The box plans are now open at Collier's. THE PEOPLE'S. ' BILL HART, TO-NIGHT. To-night's new bill presents William S. Hart in a delightful change of picture "Branding Broadway," a play in which we see him dressed in an evening suit. Into New York City goes William S. Hart. The whirl and the gaiety put him in a panic—the cabarets daze him—but the men and women with their city stuff—they can't fool him. He shows them how a real man can fight and love. The next chapter of "Tho Fighting Trail," entitled, "The Rushing Torrent," and gazettes are also shown. EMPIRE THEATRE. ENGLAND'S GREAT BARITONE, HARRY DEARTH. Harry Dearth, the English uaritone whose New Plymouth season commences on Friday next, is one of England's representative baritones—representative in the truest sense of the word. He is a Londoner, was trained at the Royal Academy of Music under Manuel Garcia, a son of the great Manuel Garcia, who taught so many famous singers in years gone by. After three years at the Royal Academy Mr. Dearth was appointed a member of the Westminster Abbey choir and sang bass solos in perhaps the greatest choir in England. There, under Sir Frederick Bridge, he remained for 14 years; during which period he sang in all the great oratorios and with the big London orchestras. He then joined Mr. George Edwards, of the London Gaiety Theatre, and played the baritone lead in "Gipsy Love" and "The Marriage Market," both of which pieces enjoyed long runs. Later—and this is interesting to New Zealanders—he played 111 George Clutsom's opera, "Young England," figuring as Sir Frances Drake. It is very seldom stars of the calibre of Mr. Dearth ever leave the Homeland to go on tour and New Zealand audiences will have the opportunity for two concerts only and as Mr. Dearth's time in New Zealand is limited. Associated on the concert platform with Mr. Dearth Will be Madame Marie Power (contralto), Miss Carlien Jurs (pianist), and Harold Beck (cellist). The box plans are now on view at Collier's.