ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. H. B. WARNER IN “HAUNTING SHADOWS.” H. B. Warner, the “tragic-lipped Chesterfield, of the screen,” as one reviewer called him,’has the most effective role of his screen career in “Haunting Shadows,” a screen adaption of “The House of a Thousand Candles,” Meredith Nicholson’s famous mystery story which has provided material for one of the most successful plays on the speaking stage for a depade. The story revolves abound the strange provisions of the will of an eccentric old millionaire who stipulated that his grandson should live for a year uninterruptedly in the rambling old castle known as “The House of a Thousand Candles.” Things begin to happen the very first day*young Glenarm takes up his abode. A bullet crashes through the window and shatters the wine glass -from which he is sampling the vintage of his grandparent. Uncanny noises are heard in the night. Weird shadows are seen flitting through the corridors. Suspicious characters lurk around the place, and Glenarm arms himself and battles with seen axjd unseen foes. Interwoven with this maze of plot and counterplot is a love romance, which develops when Glenarm meets a young girl at a nearby academy, who afterwards turns out 1 j be a joint heir to the property. Action, intrigue, suspense and thrills, which culminate in an exciting climax, make the drama of unusual entertainment value. “Haunting Shadows” shows to-night and tomorrow at Everybody’s. THE PEOPLE’S LAST NIGHT OF A BIG FOX DOUBLE BILL. The splendid Fox double bill, presenting Louise Lovely in “The Little Grey Mouse,” and Wm. Russell in the big play of the North-West Mounted Police, “The Challenge of the Law,” concludes tonight. The bill also includes latest Fox gazettes. SNOWY BAKER TO-MORROW. “THE SHADOW OF LIGHTNING RIDGE.” “The Shadow of Lightning Ridge,” which is to be screened at the People’s commencing to-morrow night, under the direction of E. J. Carroll, gives fine opportunities for tne artistic and physical abilities of “Snowy” Baker. This romance, part of which is staged in Australia and part overseas, has been taken witty the object of making a world-wide appfeal and proving that it is possible to make super features in Australia equal to the best foreign products. “The Shadow of Lightning Ridge” is no more meant to be typical of Australian life than “For the Term of His Natural Life” was meant to be typical of the England from whic*h its hero originated. It is, however, a super seven reel film full of vim and action and world-wide interest. combined with magnificent photography and excellent acting, and as such has made a tremendous appeal at home and abroad, greater, even, it is claimed, than the “Lure of the Bush” or “The Man from Kangaroo.” The box plan is at Hoffmann’s.