ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “ROSE OF THE WEST.” That splendid dramatic picture, “Rose of the West,” will close its’run at the People’s Theatre this evening. Those who have not had an opportunity to ace this picture should find time to do so, for it is a screen that js worth while. In it Madlaine Traverse, the William Fox star, does some remarkably fine acting. It is a powerful story, laid in snow-covered northern Canada, and presents some exceedingly beautiful photography. The bill includes latest Gazettes and Albert Ray and Elinor Fair in a cute comedy-drama, “Be a Little Sport.” To-morrow’s change presents the popular English actor, Aurele Sydney, in “A Gamble for Death,” an allBritifih production of great merit. EVERYBODY’S. “THE THIRD GENERATION” Mahlon Hamilton and Betty Blythe are a strong combination in the Brentwood production, “The Third Generation,” dealing with the well-known saying “from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three generations”. The first works and saves money, the second spends what the first made, and the third establishes the chain of labor by having to work all over again, and there we are where we started. The ucion of aristocracy played by Mahlon Hamilton has to face the hard toil mainly through the foolishness and love of luxury of his pretty wife, Betty Blythe, but nevertheless she proves herself a true woman when adversity walks into their home and her husband “disappears” that his [insurance may provide for wife and child. He, however, makes another fortune by hard work, and "comes back” just in time to see his wife married to another man, and his sacrifices go for nought. From that moment things happen so rapidly that it is almost hard to keep up. A sumptuous production in which no expense has been spared, and one that, written and directed by Henry Kolker, veteran actor and director, is really worth while. The screening nights are to-night and to-morrow at Everybody’s.