ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1920, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. I/AST NIGHT OP NORMA TALMADGE AS "POPPY."* "Poppy is no longer a figure of fie* tion, but a living, breathing, human being, fragile as a flower bearing that name, but just as responsive when properly nourished. The countless readers of "Poppy" • anxious to see visualised the Irish vagabond born in Africa to a life so crowdfed with disappointment and deprivation are indebted to Norma Talmadge for the opportunity of again Weeping over the troubles of this child of destiny. The story has been followed with great fidelity, and the screen version brings into vision Evelyn Cftr- ( son, poor little Poppy's adventurous lover, Luce Abinger, who caused her so much anguish, and Charles Bramham, xlie loyal friend who also bore a love for the strange product of the TransvaaK in addition to "three bad men," so picturesque and yet so provoking, there are Mary Capron, whose beauty was only exceeded by her jealousy; Sophie Cornell, the self-satisfied "secretary,"' and all the other characters that help to make this novel so enthralling. "Poppy" was screened to a crowded house at Everybody's last night and will be shown again to-night for the last time. THE PEOPLE'S. "THE BLINDNESS OF DIVORCE." Nowhere is there a more outspoken enemy of divorce than Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. "Divorce is a canker which is eating into the very vitals: of our life," Cardinal Gibbons declares. "Society—our wholo civilisation —uprears itself upon the sanctity of the home and the unity of the family. When you attack the family you attack government itself. Government to protect and perpetuate itself must expunge from its statutes the criminal divorce laws, which , the best of our life abhors." The divorce evil of which Cardinal Gibbons complains is startlingly shown in the William Fox picturisation of "The ; Blindness of Divorce," which is to be shown at the People's Theatre- commencing to-night.