ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1920, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOM MOORE IN "ONE OF THE FINEST »

"One of the Finest," Tom Moore'i new Goldwyn Picture, not only affords any number of delightful surprises in the way of startling complications and unexpected thrills, but shows the popular Tom in a decidedly new guise," Larry Hjyes, a mounted policeman, monarch of all he surveys in the fashionable park comprising his beat. He makes the first mistake, in the performance'of his duty When he overtakes a speeding limousine and reminds its beautiful occupant, Frances Hudson, that her chaffeur is exceeding the limit. The society girl resents this and sets about to get liim dismissed instead. He is reduced to the rank of plain-clothes man—but not before Frances Hudson has been saved by liim when her life is in peril- Assigned to guard her sister's Redding presents, Larry again meets the girl he can't for«et and proves that she hasn't forgotten him either. From this moment surprises begin to happen, but it doesn't do to tell too much. The programme also includes another of the side-split-ting "Century" comedies. "Loony Lions and Monlcev Business," and the ijinth episrde of "Stinsaree." The screening nights arc to-night and to-morrow at Everybody's. THE PEOPLE'S. "SUBMARINE TT-35" TO-DAY AT 3.30 AND FINALLY TO-NIGHT. Crowds of people being unable to gain admission on Saturday night to witness "The Exploits of Submarine U-35," and numerous requests having been received to give some opportunity for the children to sec this terrible indictment of the Hun, the management have arranged a special matinee performance to-day a(j 3.30, and again to-night at S, when it screens for the last time. Sufficient recommendation will have travelled from Saturdays huge audiences so that no necessity remains for enlarging on the merits of the film. It is endorsed by the clergy and leading citizens, and should not be missed by all who are not Hun sympathisers. An excellent supporting series of pictures are screened at each performance.

CHAUTAUQUA.

SATURDAY'S SESSIONS.

Saturday's sessions of the New Plymouth Chautauqua were held in Hie tent, which was erected opposite the railway station. There were good attendances in both afternoon and evening, the latter being the best audience that has yet gathered for the present Chautauqua.

The Lyric Quartette again provided the musical portion of the entertainment and scored further successes, both in their concerted singing and in the items by individual members

The lecturer for Saturday was Dr. Arthur Carpenter, who took for his subject in the afternoon, "Democracy of the Stars." By the aid of a tellurian instrument he demonstrated in an exceedingly 'interesting and clear manner the relative 'positions and motions of the sun, moon and earth, and after this proceeded to show how a closer acquaintance with the heavenly bodies would tend in the direction of true democracy.

"ENERGIES OF THE UNIVERSE."

At night Dr. Carpenter dealt with the energies of the universe and forced home the great conclusion that man was an immortal being, that dwelt iff the midst of and was part of a wonderful universe, and that he was destined to enter into a fuller and richer life beyond "the great divide." The first great energy dealt with by the lecturer was that'of the light and heat of the sun, which radiated in all directions for the benefit of 300,000,000 stars or worlds. He then stated that the star Rego, of the constellation Orion, possessed energy 22,500 times that of our sun. Dr. Carpenter then spent some time explaining the composition and. action of light and the vibrations which went to make up the different colors. From these he passed to tone vibrations, explaining that the lowest note on the keyboard of a piano was made of 100 vibrations to.the st>cond. while the lowest note that could be heard by the human ear was probably only one of 10 vibrations. The highest note the ear could comprehend comprised 14.000 vibrations to the second. The lecturer passed to a discussion on the wonderful energy represented in wireless telephony and telegraphy. and then stated that there would lie such development of psychic, power that in the future a man would he not. only able to make himself thought of bv another man in raport with himself but also to deliver a message, which would be received by the other man. To-day's programme includes entertainments iby the Zedeler Symphonic Quintette and addresses by Judge George Aldta.

THE PONSONBY MURDER. THE ARREST DESCRIBED. FEVERISH ACTIVITY OF AUCKLAND POLICE. Auckland, March 18. A period of feverish activity on the part of the Auckland police in picking up, arranging and following all available clues in connection with what is known as the Ponsonby murder, ended yosterday afternoon in the arrest of a young man, Dennis Gunn, at a locality in Newton, within a mile of the scene of the murder. •Superintendent Wright readjusted the duties of the police force so as to release the whole of the short-handed staff of detectives at present under Chief-Detective McMahon for the murder detail. As finger-print, expert, Detective-Sergeant Issell concentrated on getting all possible touch clues obtainable at the post office and the house, while Detective-Sergeant Hammond and Detectives Cummings, Young, Sweeney, and McHugh got busy on the general work of detection, with a view to combining haste with thoroughness. The mass of detail which . was gathered during three practically sleepless days and nights was sifted on Tuesday evening, when the general ? conclusions were confirmed by the laboratory work in turning suspicion in one direction. The result was that a house in Somerset Place, Newton, was put under close surveillance.in the early hours of yesterday morning, and in the afternoon, as Dennis Gunn left the house and walked up Howe street, Detectives Cum- | miiigs and Young left their observation ! post, ranged quietly up in step with him, and arrested him, without any resistance on his part. While he'was escorted to the Newton Police Station the rest of the surveillance party carried out a search of the house and of some waste land behind the building. TOOK THE CHARGE QUIETLY The accused is a short-stntured, slim young man, of dark complexion, 25 years of age, clean shaven, and with well-cut features. When charged by Detective Cummings with having committed murder, he discussed the matter quietly. He has lived in Auckland practically all his life, being one of a wellknown family, and he has resided for some years with other brothers and his mother at the house which he had just left prior to his arrest. Though not generally known as a waterside worker he i carried a ticket that indicated that his work was that of a wator?ider. About the time of his arrest he walked with a slight limp, and oil inquiry being made about it, said that he had a bullet wound in his left thigh- His explanation that about a month ago he ■ was playing with a live, cartridge, tapping the rim off it, when it went off, and the bullet went through the thigh! grazing one of the bones. A suggestion' " that the cartridge was in a revolver at the time was scouted by him. It is believed that no revolver was found in the house yesterday by the search party. HE HID HIS FACE. The courthouse was crowded with spectators when the prisoner was brought before Mr. J. E. Wilson, S M. this morning. A considerable number of curious people, including Press ' photographers,, unostentatiously equipped with cameras, waited outside the courthouse and surged round the police van as it made its first appearance with tlie prisoners on the day's lists of ar- ' rests. There was a general look of pained surprise on the countenances of the five prisoners that filed, out of the - van to find themselves in a long lane of intensely eager onlookers. As the prisoners made haste to the detention room, the look of pi&zled surprise was transferred to the faces of the spectators, who sensed that there was something' wrong, and presently it was wliispeied round that Gunn being separately brought to the court- The van ' left, bus about twenty minutes later it reappeared, and this time Gunn was in ' it. The crowd pressed around it as the prisoner stepped out. He had apparently noticed the unusual abundance of cameras, for lie promptly pulled his felt hat down over, his face, shifting it to obscure his features as the photographers shifted and dodged for' a clear shot On his return to the van a few minutes later, he obscured his fnce rather more : successfully by pressing a large handkerchief over eyes and nose. When the accused came before the magistrate, in a crowded courtroom he was charged that on Saturday last he murdered Augustus Edward Braitbwaite, and also that he broke and entered the Ponsonby Post Office and stole £0". Chief-Detective -McMahon requested a remand till Friday on next week, and His Worship acceding, the prisoner was back in the detention room after bavin" been little more than a minute in the public gaze