ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S.

OLIVE THOMAS IN “THE GLORIOUS LADY.”

In choosing “The Glorious Lady” Selznick has given this charming star a Wole to which she is splendidly adapted. Olive Thomas, first as the plain sweet little peasant girl and then as a queenly lady of the House of Loame, she, rises to new emotional heights. Her delineation of the contrasting roles of Ivis Benson, and later the Duchess of Loame, is done with consummate skill and ease, and she carries the emotional moments of the play with the grace and sureness in which she essays the lighter humorous roles that heretofore have been her forte. The bill also presents “Smashing Barriers” No. 5, Gazette and comedy. The matinee to-day commences at 2 p.m.

EVERYBODY’S.

THE MUSICAL BLANCHARDS.

An added attraction at Everybody’s next Thursday and Friday will be the appearance of the musical Blanchards, who come direct from Fuller’s vaudeville, circuit. The Musical Blanchards have won their way to the hearts of the Australasian public, and by their versatility, originality and refinement, have endeared themselves to the countless thousands who demand the elimination of vulgarity or suggestiveness in their entertainment. They are described as the most versatile and accomplished of all musical specialists, and introduce the world’s latest novelties in musical instruments, amongst which are the sonorous organ chimes, the wonderful tubular harp, the silver zylophones and the musical crickets. The Blanchards appear at Waitara on Wednesday next, May 4.

EVERYBODY’S.

LAST DAY OF “MINTS OF HELL.”

Up in the Yukon life is in the raw, men settle personal things in a primitive sort of way. Mollycoddles ; and invertebrates are lost in the shuffle, , and only the fittest survive in that region whore nature is brutal and men go mad in quest for gold. In “The Mints of Hell,” William Desmond’s latest Exhibitors’ Mutual production, life in the rough—with the bark on—is exposed. The production is a smashing big drama of adventure with the thrill of red blood and primitive emotions surging through. There are some remarkable * graphic scenes of Alaska storms with an exciting dog sled race down the mountain trail. An excellent cast supports Desmond, including Vivian Rich. Jack Richardson and Frank Lanning. The matinee to-day commences at 2 p.m. and to-night concludes the season.

‘MY LADY’S GARTER” MONDAY.

Maurice Tourneur has made a thrilling motion picture out of Jaques Futrelle’s well-known mystery romance, “My Lady’s Garter,” which is to be shown at Everybody’s Theatre on Monday. The story centres round the pursuit of a baffling international thief, known as “The Hawk.” and involves the love affair of a young Englishman who was for a time suspected of being the criminal and the daughter of a railroad magnate. The plot is spirited in the extreme, and involves such thrilling scenes as the near crash of two railroad trains, an exciting pursuit on the water in yachts, and the escape of “The Hawk” by a leap from a second storey window, and his final end in a motorboat explosion. Wyndham Standing, Sylvia Breamer, and Holmes E. Herbert are included in the cast of the picture. It was produced with all of Maurice Tourneur’s gift for artistic and lavish attention to detail.

DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.

The interest in the forthcoming production of W. W Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw” and Gertrude Jennings’ “Poached Eggs and Pearls’'—two piays. whic-i are to be given by local amateur actors —is betokened by the extraordinary demand for seats at the box office since the plan was opened on Thursday mbrning. The plays, which are in di rect contrast with each other are being produced on a bigger and better scale than anything before attempted by local dramatists, and the public may be certain of an entertainment of more *han ordinary interest and merit. T’-e former is full of strong dramatic situations. The possessor of the monkey’s paw is able to have any wish gratified, and the manner in which wishes come to pass will be portrayed at. the Workers’ Social Hall on Wednesday evening, when a three-night season of entertainments commences. The ether play which forms part of the same programme is a comedy reminiscent of scenes in a canteen in the war zone, where ladies of high rank in society essay the task of ministering to the needs of the “Tommies” while at the front. ’ Its merriment is irresistible, and makes a fine counterfoil to the tragic ending of the other play. Mrs. C. If. Weston is at the head of a strong cast, which includes Mesdames D. K. Morrison and Rex. Brewster, Misses J. Home and D. Bedford, Messrs. B. Hartman, A. McIsaac, G. Goldsworthy, K. Kirk, D. G. Morgan, and L. Etherington. The proceeds are for the Clarke Memorial Hostel. The box - plan is at Collier’s. Mrs. George’s orchestra will play the ineidefital musk.