ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1920, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. SESSUE HAYAKAWA IN "THE TEMPLE OF DUSK." Sessue Hayaka-wa in "The Temple of Dusk," showing at Everybody's to-night and to-morrow, plays the part of a young Japanese poet who is in love with a delicate American girl. She, however, turns to a man of her own race. Three years after she dies and bequeaths to the young poet a trust to guard her little girl. This he does, sacrificing his ambitions and freedom, eventually making the supreme sacrifice in keeping his plighted word to the dead mother. In this picture we see Hayakawa not as the social, slow-moving Japanese, but as an embodiment of human emotions. He plays upon the heart-strings with all the art of a great maestro, and at times bis artistry rises to heights of sublimity.

THE EMPIRE. BLOKE" TO-NIGHT. There opens a three night season at the Empire to-night quite a notable production in C. J. Dennis' picturisation of bis world l famous work, "The Sentimental Bloke" in eight acts, presented under the direction of E. J. Carroll. "The Sentimental B! ':e" wis written by Mr Dermis with such honest sweetness and broad human appeal, such fidelity to all that is best in average life and experience that it promptly made a new record, and was just as promptly pirated in America. The making of the film entailed tremendous cost and infinite taking of trouble for the makers of the film were determined at least to equal the best American standard of production. The result is a filmed story of quite exceptional excellence. The poem ts faithfully and' comprehensively expressed, its situations and incidents being most (graphically interpreted. There is a fine glow of reality in the picture and no lack of thrill. The Bloke takes individuality and character as human, and the dimpled Doreen thus realised in the flesh is a delicious and delightful "bits of goods." Tfc may be that" such blokes and such Doreens are rare in actual experience, but it is claimed that whoever sees the. picture will cordially agree that in that rarity there is matter for regret. The box plan for the tltree night season is now. open at Collier's, and patrons would be wise to reserve their seats without delay.