ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1920, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE'S. BIU DOUBLE BILL FOR TO-NIGHT. To-night's big new bill at the People's presents charming' June Caprice in her latest Fox .super-play, ''Miss Innocence," a play in which the dramatic interest piles up without flagging until a crashing climax relieves the tense atmosphere of the play—that is "Miss Innocence." latest output of William Fox. The bill includes the latest Evelyn Nesbit Fox production, "I Want to Forget." One new fur coat a year will pass. But two or three? Every woman save the one who wears them shakes her head. "Why, the girl isn't even married. Where do they come from?" they whisper. When a woman wears diamond necklaces at breakfast, dinner, and supper, and pearls and emeralds flash from her fingers, when a woman has' a new dress for every day in the yearother women begin to talk, especially if the woman in question happens to live on the third floor back, or if the gossips cannot learn all of her life history at once. Was there a fairy godmother, or were the buzzing tongues right? You will find the answer in the new William Fox play, "I Want to Forget." The latest Gazette is also shown. EVERYBODY'S. ANITA STEWART IN '-HUMAN DESIRE." • Ih "Human Desire," Anita Stewart's latest First National feature, screening finally at Everybody's to-night, the talented star has a role that is appealing and human. Spurred by a mysterious, unconquerable instinct, she f.efc the sanctity of her convent home and goes to another country, in search of a babe to whom her mothering heart will furnish shelter. There, revered by an artist to whom jier warm maternal nature is a golden emblem of the happiness denied him by his own wife, the little Berenice accepts, innocently, the realisation of human desire. Then on en the return of the wife, comes tragio bitterness to the little mother heart, which almost wrecks her "steadfast faith, but in the end she grasps her lasting joy and finds happiness. The theme of the story is the contrast between the natural and unnatural mother, and it has much to recommend it; the settings and production are on a lavish scale, and a strong caste supports the popular little star. The supports include another of the popular "Stingalee" stories, "The Black Hole of Glenranal^."