ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1920, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. "RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE" TO-NIGHT. 'A great star, a great Btory by a great author, a great cast, and a great director! William Farnum, Frank Lloyd, Zane Grey and William Fox—these are the chief figures responsible for "Riders of the Purple Sage," a photo-drama of the West, with a new plot, a picture that is colorful and fascinating, stirring in its rush of action and incident, brimming with tile keenest drama, strong and ' human and poignant in its emotional interest. If you want to sec powerful drama that glorifies the screen—the drama of a story that millions have read and are eager to see in its superb pieturised form—you want "Riders of the Purple Sage." It's a classic in film-craft! The screening occasions are to-night and to-morrow night at 7.45, and to-morrow afternoon at 2 p.m. Patrons are advised to make a special effort to attend this evening, as it is certain the seating accommodation will not bo equal to the crowds attending to-morrow night. The surest plan is to reserve seats at Collier's.

THE PEOPLE'S, I LAST NIGHT OF "TREASURE OF HEAVEN." I Marie Corelli's widely read book, "The Treasure of Heaven," woven into a splendid film story by an English film eomj pany, screens finally to-night at the People's. ■ It is an excellent and pleasing production, beautifully set in Devon and Somerset. Latest gazettes and an interest film are also shown. "THE WOLF" TO-MORROW. The matinee feature for to-morrow will be "Dolly's Vacation," starring wonderful Baby Osborne. "The Wolf," being unsuitable for children, will be shown in the evenings only. "The Wolf" is a story of the great Canadian North-Wcst, the melting-pot which ceaselessly works out the transmutation of all sorts of humans. Gorgeous scenery* is a feature of this play, and the story is vividly colored and poignantly dramatic in its intensity The trapper, Jules Beaubien, had trudged through the snow for many lonely, weary, trackless miles, to find the sister he had never seen. He found her—dead —in the snpw! Through virgin forests, along mountain streams, over tumbling rapids, in the picturesque land of logcabins and Indian encampments, around the beautiful shores of Lake Tahoe, the snow-capped ranges forming a majestic background, the cruelly-wronged Jules drove his way in seai\ .1 of his sister's betrayer; He found him, paid his debt, and wreaked his vengeance!