ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. HARRY CAREY AS “SUNDOWN SLIM.” A wandering minstrel of the cow country is the hero of the newest H. Herbert Knibbs story to be pieturized by Harry Carey. Sundown Slim is his name. He is a lovable, care-free character, ' the ramblin’ son with the nervous feet that never was made for a steady beat.” Unanimously elected poet laureate of the Last Chance Saloon, Sundown Slim mixes in a sequence of adventures in which a slow, genial smile is his only weapon. Then he meets a young Spanish maiden, played by Universal’s new find little Mignonne, and the hobo sees life differently. How he makes friends on both sides in one of the blood-shedding feuds of the cattlemen and sheepmen, takes readily on himself the blame for a saferobbery committed by an old pal, rex venges the death of his sweetheart’s father and then finds that his sweetheart is really in love with the pal, those and other things are to be seen only in the picture. “Sundown Slim” with a big supporting bill shows at Everybody’s to-night and to-morrow. EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. "THE GREATEST QUESTION” AND “A DAY’S PLEASURE.” David W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin in their latest and best productions, and on the same programme—that is the the fare provided at the Empire tonight by International Attractions, in the shape- of “The Greatest Question” and “A Day’s Pleasure.” The former is a typical Griffith drama that gets right down to the root of things, that pictures the most -intense dramatic emotions in the manner that the Griffith touch alone can impart. The greatest question is that which has occupied the minds of human beings since they first could think—Do th<*. dead return from the grave? The dynamic fo.?»'.e that Griffith’s interpretation of the question displays is food for thought, but the presentation of an otherwise simple story is so arresting in its magnetism, so intimately human in its characters, that it provides wonderful entertainment. From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a «hort step in this programme, for the inimitable Charlie Chaplin, this time with his wife and two miniature Charlies, and the valuable aid of a Ford flivver, squeeze more fun into one day’s experiences with the asthmatic sick-cylindered car than one could imagine. All sorts of ridiculous situations, that are all the more humorous because of their probability, are faced in the family Ford. The “Day’s Pleasure” is the most unqualified laugh success that Chaplin has yet produced. Prices are: D.C. 2s fid, and Stalls 2s and Is 6d. Box plans for the full season are at Collier’s. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF THEDA BARA. Theda Bara the vampire and Theda Bara the ideal wife have come face to face. * The noted screen star has proved that she is able to play the one as effectively as she can play the other. In “La Belle- Russe,” which opened yesterday at the People’s Theatre, Miss Bara plays the parts of two different characters. One moment she is shown as the demure and devoted wife of an impoverished artist; the next sees her as a woman who outwardly resembles the first character, but whose soul is black. She' is a notorious woman of Paris, yearning for conquest, and absolutely unscrupulous. The conflict between these two women forms the climax of this absorbing photoplay, which was adapted for the screen from the drama by David Belasco. Miss Bara scored a .distinct triumph in the dual role. The bill includes a hilarious “Sunshine” comedy. Gazettte and “Winter Sports in Canada.”