ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF OLIVE THOMAS. The charming and popular Olive j Thomas in her best Selznick production, “Youthful Folly,” screens finally tonight at the People’s. The bill includes Gazette, Educational Review, comedy and the opening episode of the Gaumont Company’s master serial play, “Till Minh.” " “SHOULD A HUSBAND FORGIVE?” Love, horse-racing, fighting, intrigue, j trickery and other sensational issues are ( combined convincingly in ‘Should aI Husband Forgive?” the big William Fox i special to be shown for the first time here j at the People’s Theatre to-morrow. Tn I this superbly staged picture of modern : life R. A. Walsh, who wrote and direct- , cd it, has done some of the best work , of his career. It is a story of keen . human interest woven into a heroicsized panorama. The question asked by , •Should a Husband Forgive?” is a big ; one. A shadow is cast across some 1 lives and over the threshhold of others because a good wife assumes that husbands do not forgive. The shadow lengthens when years later the woman s son, infected with the common virus of propaganda, gives up the girl he loves because appearances are agairist her. The happy end is logical. This splendid picture,’a William Fox special, has scored its hit as much by virtue Of its keen? human interest as by its quality of mammoth production. The racing scenes are given an uncommonly fine presentation. The boxing match, staged at the Broadway Athletic Club, in Brooklyn, New York, is one of the most convincing things of the kind ever attempted on the screen.

EVERYBODY’S. NORMA TALMADGE IN “A DAUGHTER Of TWO WORLDS.” A striking contrast between the high and low walks-of life is drawn in the photoplay, ‘‘A Daughter of Two Worlds,” from the" novel of the same name by Le Roy Seott, which will be shown at Everybody’s to-night and to-morrow. Norma Talmadge, who is starred as Jennie Malone, plays the part of the beautiful daughter of Black Jerry Malone, keeper of a questionable dance hall in the slums. The ambitions of her father, who is not as black as his name would indicate, carry her out of gaol, through a fashionable boarding school for girls, and into society, where she meets the man who wins her love. The stigma of the past follows her into her new environment, and a dramatie situation arises when Jennie learns that she alone can save from The electric chair a man who has been wrongly convicted of murder. To do so, Jennie is forced to risk the loss of her fiance and her place in society. The climax is startling' and of a gripping nature. Among the supports there is another episode of the popular “Vanishing Dagger” serial, a comedy and the Pathe Gazette.