ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. LA>T NIGHT OF “NINE TENTHS OF THE LAW.” “Nine Tenths of the Law” is a fine story of the big woods, with a theme so big that it cannot fail to reach the hearts of all beholders —that of mother love. Played with sincerity and real power by an exceptional cast, it has an undoubted punch. Mitchell Lewis presents one of the truest and most sympathetic pictures of the French Canadian woodsmen ever seen on the screen. It even surpasses his wonderful work as “Poleon,” in “The Barrier.” There is 'genuine attraction about this picture, 'and there will be few who are not gratified with the entertainment it provides. This picture is showing for the last time at Everybody’s to-night. THE PEOPLE’S. TOM MIX IN “THE SPEED MANIAC.” The biggest, most daring auto race ever filmed for a motion picture—a real race over the course at Santa Monica, California—is shown in Toni Mix’s new Fox photoplay, “The Speed Maniac,” with Mix himself driving the car that is wrecked in the contest. The picture is to be shown at the People’s Theatre to-night and to-morrow night. Thousands of people were lined up along the course to watch this race. They did not know that the steering knuckle on the car that Mix drove had been weakened, and never dreamed that the star was taking neck-breaking chances. When his car turned a complete somersault and he was tfirown out on the road a cry went up from a thousand throate, “He’s killed!” But nothing serious ever happens to Tom Mix, no matter how‘great the risk he takes, because, beside being a man of brawn, he is a man of brain. He reasons out his death-defying feats, timing and calculating them to a hair’s breadth. Indeed, Mix seems to be possessed of a lifepreserving instinct in the midst of the greatest danger. This wonderful scene.

the most realistic race ever filmed, is only one of many sensations in “The Speed Maniac.” This super-bill ini' ides a big “Sunshine” comedy and gazettes.