ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. AN ALL-BRITISH FILM. To-day’s new bill at the People’s presents ‘*Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, ” the elever entertaining ecreen adaptation of Sir Walter Besant’s great novel. The atmosphere throughout is realistic and quite an unusual degree of imagination has been employed by the producer There is, for instance, a highly effective scene in which Margaret is visited by the wraiths of the dead wives of past Burleys. It is not, only picturesque but quite relevant to the theme. The other “incidental” scenes are chiefly concerned with the innumerable Burleys —prizefighters, coster-mongers, ballet girls and baronets —who flock to claim the dead man’s fortune, and these humorous studies show the producer in his happiest vein. The bill includes “Smashing Barriers,” gazette and comedy, and the matinee to-day commences at 2 p.m. EVERYBODY’S. LAST DAY OF “EVERYWOMAN.” “Everywoman,” the Paramount-Art-craft Royalty masterpiece, which opened yesterday at Everybody’s, will be shown again at the matinee to-day at 2, and concludes its local season to-night. Without doubt the greatest woman picture ever filmed, containing scenes of gorgeous beauty seldom attempted upon the, screen. The banquet scene is a display of lavishness and extravagance on such an unparalleled scale that mere words seem impotent in its A monster banquet board, curved so as to almost represent a figure eight, encircles in one part a swimming pool in which girls, as graceful, as goddesses and as magnificent as the dawn, disport themselves, while the other part contains a dance floor upon which a bevy of beautiful girls in gorgeous gowns are seen dancing. The entire scene, in all its splendour, is but a phase of moneymadness, where priee is not asked and where the good that is in “Everywoman” is sifted out and lost in the turmoil. This photo-play has been adapted by George H. Melford from Walter Browne’s famous play of the same name, and is interpreted by one of the greatest all-star casts ever assembled. The bill includes a big Vitagraph feature, “King Spruce,” a tale of the Canadian lumber camps*, featuring Mitch Lewis. The box plans are at Collier’s.