ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “THE BEST OF LUCK.” To-night concludes the local season of “The Best of Luck,” Metros supersporting drama of 921. The story is intensely dramatic, filled with pulsequickening climaxes and is, in short, one of those pictures which makes you hold on to your seat. Some fine air and submar.ne stunts together with an exciting motor-cycle chase lift the play right out of the ordinary. The bill includes Elmo No. 12. and gazette and comedy. EUGENE O’BRIEN TO-MORROW. Eugene O.’Brien breaks new ground in the latest Selznick production “The Figurehead.” He enters politics and has a bad time—but wins out. Of course romance plays an important part—an O’Brien picture would not be complete without it—intensely dramatic with some big thrills in it and will prove one of the most popular of the Selznick super-features. EVERYBODY’S. TENNYSON'S “THE LADY CLARE” TO-NIGHT. The British Actors’ film, “Lady Clare,” adapted from Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, is a definite answer to the criticism levelled against British film productions. It is a triumph of which England may well be proud. Acclaimed bj the press in the Old Country as one of the most beautiful and most finished pictures'’yet j?hrned out by Britain, it sets a new standard of film production. The title role is in the capable, if small hands of Mary Odette, and among the notable east that supports her, is our old friend Bert, otherwise Arthur Cleave, the susceptible ‘old contemptible’ of “The Better ’Ole.” It is a wonder that Tennyson’s works have hitherto been left severely alone by screen producers, and now that a start has been made with “Lady Clare.” it is to he hoped that more'of the poet’s works will be seen in the form of screen literature. “Lady Clare” is a production that has evoked the highest praise and greatest enthusiasm of any English production up to the present.'lt is a picture worth while, and we know of no more suitable actress for the role of “lAdy dare” than Mary Odette, who brings the heroine to life in this production. The bill includes gazette, travel and comedy, and the full programme screen to-morrow at the matinee, at 2 p.m.