ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. A BIG 64REEL BRITISH FILM. To-night’s new bill at the People’s presents “The Fall of a Saint,” the first picture to be produced under the “British Screencraft” trademark, and it represents another decided step forward in the progress of British production. The “idle rich” who play at work—of these was Lord Norten, the busiest idler of them alk . To play at “playing” was his be-all and his end-all, and the eccentricity which invited bem ith his roof all classes of society, so long as they could play effective parts in his amateur theatricals, brought to Norton Castle a notoriety which its stateliness did not deserve. The featured artists are Josephine Earle and Gerald Laurence, two of England’s foremost screen artists. The bill includes Gazette, comedy, and “Elmo the Fearless.”

EVERYBODY’S.* LAST NIGHT OF “SUNDOWN SLIM.” A cow-camp Khayyam singing the rubaiyet of a rod rider is “Sundown Slim,” who was visualised for us in the person of Harry Carey at Everybody’s Theatre last night. Tattered hat and happy heart, there is a romance about the lazy life of the hobo that appeals to the red blood of nature-loving humans, hustlers though we are. Even the business man grabs some sort of adventure in hobohemia on his seasonal hunting trip. The lure of the road is liable to invade any mahogany-finished office and coax a man from routine to vagabondia. To the man shackled to his desk “Sundown Slim” comes as a refreshing picture of what might be under happier circumstances. The final screening takes place to-night. EMPIRE THEATRE. “THE GREATEST QUESTION” AND “A DAY’S PLEASURE.” While David W. Griffith in his “Greatest Question” presents a tremendous problem for the thinker, has above all made a wonderful, thrilling entertainment out of the story of simple people. It is his contribution to the burning topic of the hour, the great mystery that has engrossed more writers, thinkers and speakers than any other since the world began—do the dead return from the grave? —Griffith’s answer is his production of “The Great Question-” This* great picture alone is a generous entertainment, but in addition a further attraction is provided in Charlie Chaplin’s latest and best million dollar comedy, “A Day’s Pleasure,” one that) is calculated to bring roars of laughter from a house composed entirely of sphinxes. As the head of the household consisting of a plump little wife and two chubby miniatures of himself,, and with the aid of the family auto, a Ford, and a weird one at that, which auto go and more often won’t, Charlie is supreme. From the moment he cranks up his family conveyance until he returns home, leaving a wild trail of disaster behind him, he is simply irresistible. A whole day’s round of whimsical absurdities, all the funnier because they are so probable, crowded into 30 minutes of uncontrollable laughter, will furnish enough food for humor-to last many a long day. The full programme shows again to-night. SCHOOL MATINEE TO-MORROW. There will bfe a special school matinee to-morrow at 3.30, when Charlie Chaplin will appear in “A Day’s Pleasure. ’ “The Greater Question”’ will not be shown at the matinee.