ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “EYES OF YOUTH” TO-NIGHT. Clara Kimball Young’s first Equity picture, “Eyes of Youth,” must be numbered among the big picture successes. The Marcin-Guernon play, so popular behind the footlights, is peculiarly adaptable to screen requirements, the novelty and variety of incident of tire plot having all the ingredients required in a really absorbing photodrama. The stellar role, with its four widely divergent episodes or phases of life, is one to delight the heart of any real actress, and Clara Kimball Young infuses into the role of Gina such wonderful breadth of vision, and magnetic personality, as to render it one of the screenls most notable efforts. The production is in every way big, lavishly and artistically produced, the cost running into some 250,000 dollars, and “Eyes of Youth” may safely be said to fully live up to all its promises. The bill includes “Dragon’s Net” No. 2, Gazette and Travelog. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “THE FIGUREHEAD.” Eugene O’Brien is splendid in his latest Selznick feature, “The Figurehead.” Eugene O’Brien, as the impulsive, bighearted hero, gives a spirited performance and Anna Q. Nilsson is well cast for the role of the settlement worker, who gives her earnest support to “the figurehead.” There are some big scenes in the exteriors of the political meetings, and the mounted police charging upon them makes an effective scene and is good for a life-sized thrill. The bill includes “Smashing Barriers” No. 3, Gazette, comedy and Interest. To-morrow’s change presents George Walsh in a smashing city story, “No 17,” and Shirley Mason in “Girl of My Heart.” THE EMPIRE. “THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER.” On Thursday and Friday this week there will be presented at the Empire Theatre the famous “Man from Snowy River,” “Banjo” Paterson’s classic, as Australia’s finest motion picture. “The Man from Snowy River,” who has lived so long between the printed pages of “Banjo” Paterson’s book, steps out and rides his wiry mountain steed down the rugged Gippsland hills, and races with death while the other stockmen hold their breath. All the familiar, loved characters of the poem that contains the scent of the bluegum in every line, step out from the silent, silver screen to greet you in real life—those characters you have so long visualised only in the mind’s eye. The box plan is now open at Cqjlier’s. DANIEL LUBOWSKI CONCERT. A YOUTHFUL VIOLINIST. Commenting on the Daniel Lubowski concert at the Town Hall, Wellington, the Dominion states: “Masterly technique characterised the violin playing of Master Daniel Lubowski, the twelve-year-old virtuoso, who opened the Wellington season in the Town Hall Concert Chamber last evening. True, the interpretation of this young American lad was not a matter of temperament, but, nevertheless, the technique and mastery of the instrument was remarkable. The concert was short, and contained the works of great masters; and the audience, appreciative, accorded the youthful artist prolonged applause for each of his solos. At the conclusion of the violin recital the Lubowski family, consisting of Master Lubowski (violin), Mr. Lubowski (violin), and Master Lubowski (violin), Miss Anna Lubowski (piano), and Master Joseph Lubowski (drums and bells), played well some well-known overtures and popular selections, adding glamor to the performance by their Tzigane uniforms. Miss Anna Lubowski, who, as accompanist to her brother, proved herself a brilliant pianists, played Rachmaninoff’s prelude in a different rendering to that usually given. Joseph Lubowski showed skill in a bell solo.” The local season commences at Everybody’s on Wednesday, and the box plans are now at Collier’s.