ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1920, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MONTAGUE LOVE IN "THE ROUGH

NECK." A strong (iramiitic photo-play, entitled "The Rough Neck," in which Montague Love appears, will be shown at Everybody's Theatre to-night. Whatever may be the objections of the modern maids to cave-man love-making, the fact remains that the wooer of the primitive big-stick type exercises ;i virion's fascination for'them. It is the cl'il' that settles ilie uiisiiio.-s in tlii-j story. To save a <>irl from a crook •rack Masters (Montague Love') carries her off ajul forces her to marry him under threat of a showing- up for the other two. Hating her cave-man like poison at first. Frances later discovers that he is a real man, and the story ends happily. Magnificent woodland scenery is a feature of the picture. Another episode of the thrilling and sensational melodrama, "The Man of Might," is also on the bill, with good supporting pictures, i THE PEOPLE'S. . LAST NIGHT OF "TKUE BLUE." "True Blue," the latest Fox production, heads the new programme at the People's. It tells a thrilling storv of the rugged West, in which William Farnum, the ever-popular "movie" star, appears to best advantage. The supporting programme includes a fine .Sunshine comedy entitled "Her First.Kiss." "THE MAN FROM KANGAROO." ' "So many Australian stories have been maltreated in cinematograph production," says an Australian exchange, that it is a real pleasure to welcome E. J. Carroll's picturisation of "The Man From Kangaroo" directed and produced by Wilfred Lucas, a man who knows his business from Ato Z. "The Man From Kangaroo" is fully equal in general production and superior in photographic settings and picturesque scenery to anything yet imported from': America, and the scenario by Bess Meredith is gripping, coherently continuous, scrupulous in detail, and above all clean, wholesale and refreshing. The characterisations jire true to life. The stockmen, cattle duffers, bushrangers and gold diggers being not Californians masquerading in Australian dress, but just such types as were and are to be found in Australia. The general atmosphere is redolent of Australian life without the somewhat ostentatious vulgarity which has so often disfigured previous productions. Mr. "Snowy" Baker's part as the fighting parson abounds with excellent opportunities for different athletic stunts which are warranted to bring down (ho house. Miss Brownie Vernon, who is making her first appearance in Australia, jumps right into the heart of her audience. She is beautiful to look upon and irresistibly registers the many phases of her part'. This is the first of the Australian productions made by the experts recently imported from American by Mr. E. .T. Carroll, and it certainly merits the confidence and expenditure thereof of the financiers, besides realising the highest expectations of the public and justifying the enterprise. "The Man From Kangaroo" will commence its local season tomorrow afternoon at 3.15.