ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. "BEAUTY AND THE ROGUE"— MATINEE TO-DAY. Mary Miles Minter is seen in, for her, a new role in "Beauty and the Rogue"— that is, a ballet dancer—and she is very easy to look at in the character. The dancing is only an incident in the story of her attempts to reform a burglar from the error of his nocturnal ways, and the attempt is not too successful, but she has a good try all the same. Misunderstandings aboulid in the story, which works up to a good climax, and contains many arrestingly interesting situations. After having a good look at Mary as a reformer, one wouldn't mind being a deserving case jußt for the pleasure of being reformed by the dainty little charmer, "Beauty and the Rogue" shows at Everybody's matinee this afternoon at 2 p.m. and again finally a! the evening session commencing at S p.m.

TEE PEOPLE'S,

ELSIE FERGUSON TO-NIGHT. The bright new bill at the People's to-night has for its leading theme a snappy story starring beautiful Elsie Ferguson and entitled "His Parisian Wife." She was from Paris and her pretty dresses maddened her American raother-in-law. She promised to wear black. She wore it, but it was a very low cut dinner gown and they were horrified. "His Parisian Wife" was in disgrace. Captivated by the beauty and delicate charm of a Parisian newspaper girl called Fauvette, Martin Wesley, a young American lawyer, flails deeply in love, and after brief courtship marries her- The scenes are laid in Boston, New York and Paris; and the atmosphere of the gay city is vividly reproduced. The latest Billy West "comedy and gazette are also on the bill.

THE EMPIRE. MILDRED HARRIS IK "FOR HUSBANDS ONLY." A REAL MOTION PICTURE GEM. Last evening at Tho Empire Mildred Harris (Mrs. Charlie Chaplin) commenced a two-night season in "For Husbands Only," a. "Jewel" production that captivated the large audience present. Lois Weber (whose last great production was "The Price of a Good, Time!') has made of this a dramatic gem that (ill others. The characters are real—there's the girl who treats marriages as merely a guarantee of respectability: the man who wants her, "but is not it marrying man"; and the man she married, just to be safe with the other fellow- These three great characters live through the reels of this mighty photoplay, and are thrown into a climax that sends glorious comedy into drama so tense that it hurts you. Lois AVeber is a past master of the art of concealing the denouement of her photoplays, but she never was more successful than in the case of "For Husbands Only." Mian Weber prides herself upon the fact that the ending is so unusual, and so well masked, that not even the cleverest student of screen craft can anticipate its climax. "For Husbands Only" screens again tonight at The Empire for the last time and it's a picture that no amusement seeker can afford to miss. I

EMPIRE THEATRE.

"THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE."

COMMENCING NEXT MONDAY.

Mr. 0, J. Dennis' Sentimental Bloke, winch is to be presented at the Empire Theatre (or a three-night season commencing Monday next under the aegis of Mr. E. J. Carroll, has many things to commend it, apart from the'things that only appeal to the palate's sensitiveness to the subtle favors of literature. It is a story that uplifts without preaching. It is simple, effective, natural, sweet, and (juite (imivinping love story. It appeals directly to 'those better feelings, of the human heart that run deepest. It is a story for young and old, for folk of all temperamont and dispositions ami circumstances. And the film expresses the story perfectly. It is the one big film made in Australia, the onlv one that is big in the big way. The acting is so remarkably good, that it never seems like acting. The atmosphere and local colors are correct bevond all'possibility of cavil. It i s an achievement, this film. It thrills and stimulates, like an ideal toiiip. It gives new life (o hopes long weary, to faith lonsr dormant. The poem in speech is still a poem of photography.. Jf sterling worth and purity count'for anything. \i genuine human interest is the thing that speaks to you, here is the finest film that ever came to the Dominion. Spnclal appropriate music accompanies the production, which will I>.> presented on a scale in keeping with its importance. The box plan is now open at Collier's. Mr. Abel Rowc, dramatic tenor, travels with the film and will sing "Doreen" and "A Tear, a Kiss, a Smile" during the screening.