ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LAST NIGHT OF "A MIDNIGHT ROMANCE." Three woman arc responsible for the production based on a woman's nine emotions showing for the last time at Everybody's to-night. It is called "A Midnight Romance," and stars Anita Stewart. Marie Alexander, a victim of abuse as a hotel maid by day, and sought and loved by night as a beautiful vision in charming gowns, completely baffles the man whose heart she has won, and successfully upsets a thrilling blackmail pldt of which he is the intended victim. At this point she'disappears, and when she again is found by the young man it is under circumstances and in surroundings more bewildering and perplexing than even his wildest surmises had imagined. Supporting pictures include another adventure of "The Scarlet Runner." THE PEOPLE'S. "HAPPY, THOUGH MARRIED." _ To-night's new bill presents the charming Australian star, Enid Bennett, in her latest de luxe Paramount picture, "Happy, ThoiK 1 - Married," a comedydrama par excellence and said to be the best that Enid has ever appeared in. The bride suspected that the husband was a cynic and did not really love her. and the photograph she found seemed to indicate "a past." When the beautiful Spanish girl appeared on the scene it seemed to clinch matters; but when all was explained she was Happy, Though Married.- The bride jumped to a wrong conclusion when she found the cynical references in the book heavilv under-scored. She thought her husband was a wicked cynic. She thought even worse of him when a beautiful Spanish girl appeared; but all was eventually explained, and the threatened heart-break was averted. They were Happy, Though Married. The programme includes the latest gazettes, Jester comedy, and "The Fighting Trail," No. 0. "THE PRICE OP A GOOD TIME."

"Tlie Prion of a Good Time," the seven reel super-feature running on Thursday and Friday, with Mrs. Charlie Chaplin (Mildred l-lnvmi in the lead, was one of the big outstanding enormous successes of the picture world in America last year. It is a Jewel production—their greatest to date—it was directed by that wonderful woman genius, Lois Weber. It is gorgeously produced in every scene and setting; it is magnificently acted and preesnted; it is, in fact, a picture about which only superlatives can be used. The story is one of the .biggest ever told, because it is so absolutely human—it deals with the Great Temptation known to every working woman, every woman of leisure, every woman whatever her age or situation iii life. It will appeal to all women patrons—women want plays about a woman—preferably a wojßan they know. Every woman will know the thoughts, desires, temptations of Linnie. the girl in "The Price of a Good Time." It will appeal to the men—it must, for it is a gripping story. It will appeal to all "who are looking for the picture with a meaning It carries a moral—a lesson of life that all may well learn; it is clean, though strong: it stirs the sympathy it entertains all the time; it is the heart of a living being open to all. This picture more than fulfills every possible requirement of the screen drama to-day. It has been a wonderful success wherever shown. It is sympathetically conceived and probably the most artistically staged photodrama to-day. EMPIRE THEATRE THE "DIGGERS." An entertainment of high order is promised a I the Empire Theatre Saturday next, when the "Digger" Pierrots will commence a brief season. The combination consists of ten performers, in addition to which a select orchestra of ten members constitute a combination which has rarely been equalled bv this class of entertainment. Fun. frolic, musical sketches, monologues, and concerted numbers are included in Ihe proGrammes presented by (he "Diggers.'' The recent efforts of this company on behalf of the returned soldiers were rewarded by being able to band over fo the Mayors in towns included in the previous visit the magnificent sum of •C'.iftfl. a fact which sppalcs volumes for the interest and appreciation shown by the public. On this occasion natrons will have an onportunity of testing the versatility of the "Digegrs," and enjoy the gems of uiiioue and rare items, sentimental and otherwise—principally the latter, as comedy largely predominates. The Chronlales of the N.Z.E.F., cooi.

mcnting on a performance of the Pierrots, states:—''When I saw them a few nights ago they were staging a revue called 'Eyes Eight.' All revues are mostly burlesques, and it is in this that the h.Z. Pierrots are at their best. The performance goes with a businesslike

lilt arid swing from the first tap of the conductor's baton to the grand finale and there was not a dull sixty seconds in the -whole revue." The box pl ftU opens at Collier's to-morrow. The ''Diggers" should be assured of a bumper *