ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. BIG DOUBLE BILL TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. A human tale of a chorus girl is offered in Margarita Fisher's new picture, “Trixie from Broadway,” which shows at both sessions at Everybody’s to-day. It is calculated to send shivers of laughter up and down your spine, and when you are exhausted in watching the resourceful westerner tame his wife, you can sympathise with her when his fellow villagers hold an indignation meeting to rid her from the community. Miss Fisher is thoroughly captivating as the chorus-girl wife, and she plays the part with her customary vivacity and good nature. The programme also includes a powerful fivereel drama, ‘‘What Every V Oman Wants,” which stars the popular Grace Darmond. “THE SPORTING DUCHESS.” The fact thaf over 200,000 dollars was spent on this production, which will be shown at Everybody’s next Monday, is enough to show that it is an unusual picture, but if also serves as a gorgeous setting for the finest work that Alice Joyce has, in a spectacular career of successes ever put up. The company includes Percy Marmont, G. V. Seyffertitz and Captain Lionel Page, a noted English player, who served with distinction in the Royal Flying Corps during the war. Several well-known jockeys appear in the racing scenes, mounted on famous horses. The big racing scenes were taken at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans during the racing season in that city. Every effort has been made to give the production the English atmosphere, and to make the race a typical Derby. Every detail has been worked out by experts until it has all the earmarks of a British production. The American scenery and architecture lend themselves well to the English atmosphere, many old estates being replicas of some European manor. Box plane for this big special production are now open at Collier’s.

THE PEOPLE’S. “THE WOMAN GAME.” Miss Kammerstein, the star of “The Woman Game,” has made rapid strides towards popularity since she joined the Selznick forces, and there are many motion picture devotees who await her new releases with interest. What impresses the discerning dbserver of Mjiss Kammerstein’s work is the fact that she never over-acts, but goes about each particular scene as if it was the one thing in the world she was used to doing, and “The Woman Game” is easily the best photoplay in which Miss Kammerstein has yet appeared. It is a fascinating and 'interesting story that will appeal to the feminine element of an audinece, for it shows the way in which a young woman possessed only of her womanly charms, uses them to advantage and “wins out” over the hard and ruthless business man, capturing his heart, but not before she convinces him that “all’s fair in love and war.” The bill includes gazette, comedy, and “Tib Minh.”