ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “CHILDREN NOT WANTED.” Another stage star to join the ranks of the motion picture players is Edith Day, star of the New York musical comedy sensation, “Irene.” Miss Day niakes her screen debut in “Children Not Wanted,” the story of an international swindling plot, which also deals trenchantly with the problem that is being faced by so many people to-day of how to house children. Dogs and cats are welcome, but children are barred by many landlords. There is a charming love element as well as an absorbing mystery, which is not cleared up till almost the last foot of film. The bill includes Gazette, Travelog and comedy.

“THE BRANDED WOMAN” MONDAY.

No one can see the work done by Norma Talmadge in her latest First National feature, “The Branded Woman,” without being moved and understanding the qualities about her acting that placed her next to Mary Pickford on the world’s popularity. The role she so admirably interprets covers the life of a girl from childhood at college to wifehood and motherhood, passing through times of sore tribulation and misunderstanding that give her wonderful bpportunities of showing her wonderful emotional ability and magnetic personality “The Branded Woman” gives ms Norma Talmadge at her very best, and what more than that could one desire! TIIE PEOPLE’S. .

GEORGE BEBAN IN “AN ALIEN.”

Commencing at the matinee to-day at 2 p.m., the world’s greatest character actor, George Behan, will appear in his Selzniek masterpiece, “An Alien.” In “An Alien,” a production which strikes a new note, we have one of those strong human interest pictures that always attract. George Beban, the finest character actor of the stage and screen today, makes his re-appearance in this picture. George Beban has made a speciality of impersonating Italian characters and he does his best work in this picture, which, by the way, was written by himself and was founded on the wellknown poem, “The Sign of the Rose.’ It has been one of the most successful plays of the past two or three years in America, and has now been adapted to the screen by George Beban a n< l Thomas Ince, the famous director, with Beban in the part he created on the stage, Pietro Massena, an alien in New York. “Sir.ishing Barriers” No. 6, Gazette and comedy are also on the bill.

THE EMPIRE. THE MASQUERADERS. An excellent entertainment on original lines is promised by the Masqueraders, a company who will commence a short season at the Empire on Monday evening, and the company claims to present the most novel numbers and settings ever produced by a similar organisation. A leading feature of the programme will be the Maori speciality sung by Mr. L.

Fairfax and the entire company in native costume. During the season the company will present programmes comprising varied items from grand opera to revue. T/he performers will be supported by an orchestra of twelve players under the baton of Mr. George Pownall. Mr. Chas. Stewart, the “wizard drummer,” was offered startling contracts in Australia, but he remained staunch to his old company. The company includes Leslie Holmes (English comedian), Leslie Gordon (of “Dave On Our Selection” fame), Norman Leslie (English comedian), and George Wright (comedian), and it is said that vocally the company is very strong, having such vocalists of repute as Miss Clarice Norman (contralto), Miss Gwen Lester (soprano), Mr. Lance Fairfax (baritone), land Mr. Leslie Jephcott (tenor). Carrying with them their own orchestra. “The Masqueraders” offer an entertainment which is described as original in every respect. The box plan is at Collier’s.