ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S, A BIG DOUBLE BILL TO-NIGHT. The famous Fox special feature, "A Daughter of France," which was held up in the recent railway strike, has now been traced, and will arrive in New Plymouth to show on the big double programme commencing at Everybody's to night. Virginia Pearson is the star of this fine production, which is said to be the greatest success of he.- career, and one of the best Fox features ever filmed. The other big attraction will be a Vitagraph production, ''A Rogue's Romance," starring the ever-popular Earle Williams. This brilliant photo-play is written around the romance of a master "crook," and provides the most entertaining story since "Arsene Lupin." The j usual prices will be charged for this big double star bill, THE PEOPLE'S. LAST NIGHT OF HAROLD LOCKWOOD. Harold Lockwood in Metro's romantic comedy-drama, "The Greijt Romance," screening finally to-night at the People's, is quite up to his old form, and provides the very best of thrilling and entertaining scenes. It is a story where one man, by dominant force, reorganised a nation, where a prance of lovers wooa a daintv American maid, and where glorious youth and strength scorn intrigue and deception. The bill includes gazette, travelog, and comedy. To-morrow's change introduces popular Bessie Love in her latest feature comedy-drama, "Cupid Forecloses." EMPIRE THEATRE. BILL, BERT, AND ALF. "THE BETTER 'OLE." Bill: Boys, there is times when I wish I'd been born a girl. Alf: What'ud been the use? You'd only have 'ad Bert ohasin' you. A fragment of humor from the Better 'Ole, Bruce Bainsfather's great comedy, to be staged at the Empire Theatre tomorrow night. Bill's quiet fund of humor dominates every scene as the moustached old walrus dominated the original cartoons in "Fragments from France." There lis the regimental merry-making with the French girls outside the Cafe des Oiseaux, just behind the front, where the heavyweight run-to-seed old regular disarmed the spy and appropriated his treacherous plans with an easy-going and "soft eush-' ion to you" in response to the furious "Yous etes un cochon." Marching orders bring the audience nearer the firing line. The three Musketeers, tired and muddy, march onward to the cheer-o of Bill's apt remary, "Boys, we'll miss the war when it's over," and join in song, "We Wish We was in Blighty." The homely side of war is further illustrated by "In the Trenches" with sandbags and a glowing charcoal fire near the dug-out from which Bill emerges with a loaf on his bayonet to "Toast the Staff of Life on the Point of Death." Bill here gives voice to the tuneful ditty, "She's Venus tie Milo to Me," in passages of honest affection, in which he recalls his faithful Maggie (Mrs. Bill). The hero's arrest for sua-

peeled communication with the enemy on his return from the expedition in which lie saved a French battalion by blowing up a bridge, is preceded by a scene of farewell with Bert. Bill is court-martialled, but- ultimately decorated. The final scene finds Bill back in his village home somewhere in England. Although Bill, Alf and Bert are the central figures in Bairnsfather's play, the supporting cast is a lengthy one. The box plan is now open at Collier's.