ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 April 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “THE IDOL DANCER” TO-NIGHT. D. W. Griffith has done it againd In his “Idol Dancer,” commencing at Everybody’s to-night, an exotic story of and laid in the South Sea Islands, he has created another instantaneous success. He has again twanged upon the harp of life with his master touch, and produced from the sunny surroundings of the islands a poem of beauty and grace. That this picture nearly cost the lives of the director and company, when they were helplessly adrift for four days in the small yacht in which they were proceeding to the islands, has not detracted from the value of the picture in one iota. Clarine Seymour, as the idol dancer, is wistfully lovely, provocatingly graceful, a “thing of beauty and a joy for ever.” Dick Barthelmess gives us some wonderful acting in the role of the beachcomber, and that old favorite, Creighton Hale, is seen in a charming role of a young man, nephew of the missionary, who has gone to the tropics for health, and dies happily, fighting the black-birders. A wonderful love story amid romantic surroundings, and a not less wonderful regeneration of a wreck of a man, are unfolded in a series of the scenes of poetic beauty. The bill includes gazettes and “Dragon’s Net” No. 3. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “ANNA THE ADVENTURESS.” E. Philip Oppenheim’s famous book, “Anna the Adventuress,” picturised by Hepworth, makes a most entertaining picture. Throughout the acting is remarkably good. Alma Taylor has many opportunities as the twin sisters, Anna and Annabel, 1 and she never misses one of them, portraying the characteristics of the two women with a faithfulness which is worthy of the highest recommendation. The bill includes gazettes and “Smashing Barriers” No. 4. “EVANGELINE” TO-MORROW. The best loved work of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the famous poet, will be shown on the screen to-morrow, when the William Fox big special production, “Evangeline,” with Miriam Cooper in the title role, will open at the People’s Theatre. “Evangeline” the poem achieved instant su’ccess not only in America, but all over the world, and within a few years was translated into every civilised tongue. A comparable success is predicted for the Fox film version as it adheres most faithfully to Longfellow’s exquisite dramatic poem, in addition to being the most beautiful of all motion picture productions. A big Sunshine comedy, “Fair Lady,” and gazettes are also to be shown.