ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. LAST NIGHT OF MADGE EVANS IN "THE LOVE NET." "The Love Net," in short is Madge Evans, the wonderful little child actress whom half the work would like to adopt, and the other half to marry when she prows up. In "The Love Net," a World film production, Madge for the nonce is "Pirate" Patty Barnes, grandchild of an old sea-dog whose son (Patty's father) has been killed in the war, and who himself is facing hard times in consequence. The love net is spread to catch the good that is in most men and women, and all the crooked places are made straight. It is a pretty little idyll, with Madge as the elfin spirit of fun and frolic, and love and laughter. The final screening takes place at Everybody's to-night. THE PEOPLE'S. VIOLET DANA IN "FALSE EVIDENCE." "False Evidence," the new feature showing to-night and to-morrow at the People's, shows Viola Dana, asMadelon, a girl of the West, who lives in a remote village amidst the towering redwoods. It is one of the primitive customs of the inhabitants to betroth their daughters at birth, and so, grown to womanhood, Mndelon finds herself engaged to one man, and in love with another. The i'.uation docs not appeal to her, and, to tlic dismay of all, she breaks the ancient traditions. How to save her lover from the penalty of a crime of which he is falsely accused she sacrifices her own- happiness, and how Fate takes a hand and straightens out the tangle skein of her life are situations that are dramatically told. A feature of the picture is the beauty of the out-door scenes, most of the picture being filmed amidst the picturesque great redwood forests of California. TWO AMATEUR PLAYS. In "The Res;t Cure," the amusing one-act play by Gertrude Jennings, to be given by New Plymouth amateurs next Wednesday in the Good Templar Hall, we have a little insight into the ways of nursing homes. The little Cockney maid (Miss Dora Bedford) is a delightful character, with her shrewd observations of the haughtv, but catty nurses (Miss Jessie Home aiul Miss Winfield), who, between them, effectually euro the nerve troubles of the unhappy patient, Mr. Reed,, the author (Mr. C. H. Wynyard). This play will be followed by one of ■T. M. Barrie's, "Echoes of tbe'War," a play in three scenes dealing with the pathetic deception of an old Scotch charwoman in London. Having no kith or kin at the war, as have the other charwomen—Mrs. Twynley (plaved by Mrs. E. A. Walker).' Mrs. Mi'cklehan (Mrs. Bartlcy), and the lugubrious Ha.gpcrty. woman (Miss Beryl Hirst)— Sarah Ann Dowey (Mrs. Claude Weston) boldly adopts one from a chance name in the papers. Unfortunately, as it seems, the brawny "Kiltie," Private Kenneth Dowey, of the Black Watch (Mr, Andrew Smith) turns- up. and the complicated situation is handled by Barrie with all his unique skill and' characterisation. A large audience is hoped for next Wednesday so that the funds for Die proposed Girls' Friendly Society Hostel may benefit.