ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S, LAST NIGHT OF TRUMPET ISLAND.” It is no wonder that when the two master writers combine forces as with Gouverneur Morris and Randolph Chester in “Trumpet Island” the great special Vitagraph production concluding tonight at Everybody’s, the result should be a dramatic offering of rare power and beauty. An Airplane accident in a terrific thunderstorm, a fight for life and the girl on a cliff’s edge are but two of the daring and thrilling episodes which feature the production. It is a picture which cannot well be missed. The bill includes gazette, comedy, and Bill*Duncan in “Silent Avenger” No. 2. To-mor-row’s change presents Robert Warwick in his 'Paramount production “Thou Art the man,” a ‘ stirring tale of the South African gold mines, comedy and “Bride IS” Neylo. ’ THE PEOPLE’S. WM. RUSSELL AND LOUISE LOVELY. William Russell’s latest Fox picture, “The Cheater Reformed,” to-night’s attraction at the People’s Theatre, is. said, to tie the interest of the audience into a hard knot the moment the picture opens, and does hot. • release until ..the final scene*. Russell plays two roles in: the picture—a clergyman and a crook. •! Suppose you were a clergyman’s wife,'* and suddenly learned that your husband i had been killed months before and that I the 'man you believed to be your hus- • band was an impostor—what would you Ifo? See William Russell in “The Cheat- ’ er Reformed.” Louise Lovely appears in : her big Fox play, “While the Devil Laughs,” an under-world stoxy, and a tale of "tangled lives that ended with a strange twist of fortune. Fox gazettes are also on the bill.

EMPIRE THEATRE TO-NIGHT. ROSEMARY REES’ ENGLISH COMEDY CO. “THE AMATEUR ADVENTURESS.” Miss Rosemary Rees* English comedy, “The Amateur Adventuress,” will open their local season of two nights at the Empire Theatre to-night. Miss Rees has written a brilliant, jolly farce, with a slightly sentimental flavor. Written around the Bohemian and psuedo-artistic life of London, the comedy gives e fine insight into the" lives of the professional, careless, ne’er-do-wells, who, unconsciously, add to the gaiety of the community at large. The Bohemian life of London has a peculiar fascination for a vast number of people, including tnose who only* see it from the outside. Miss Rees has lived amongst the class of characters which she has woven into the story of “The Amateur Adventuress,” and' she is thus enabled to depict the men and women of the story with a fidelity that would be impossible to most other authors. The tragic side of Bohemian life is left entirely alone, only the humorous and droll 'of the Bohemian of London is delineated, with some of the real sentiment of the lives of those who feel so thoroughly the tragedies and the comedies of tZe world. The principal characters in the play are: Mary Beamish (Rosemary Roes), Mary Seebold (Bella Xapier), Sarah O’Kelly (Katie Towers), Owen Freeland (Harold Moran), Thomas Peak George Broad), Martha Long (Pamela Wilson), Jimmy Arbuthnot (Cecil Encourt), William Boggs (Gregory Lawson), Lady Arbuthnot (Kora King), and Anne Wharton (Nic Marsh), Tp--morrow night the company will appear in “The Molluse,” a famous London comedy success, in which Rosemary Rees starred with Julius Knight throughout England. The box plans for both nights are at Collier’s. “BRAN PIE.” EMPIRE THEATRE ON SATURDAY. The New Plymouth Courtiers’ Costume Comedy Company will return with “Bran Pie” to the Empire Theatre on Saturday evening next (July 16) for a season of une night only. The Courtiers have just completed a tour of the towns surrounding New Plymouth, and. this will be absolutely the last opportunity of witnessing. this brilliant company of entertainers in their novel revue “Bran

Pie.” Everywhere, for. all performances, the company have played to crowded houses, and that pleasant recollections of them are retained is evidenced by the- repeated requests from local theatre-goers to the management to stage “Bran Pie” once more. it would seem as if. people cannot see enough of these talented and versatile laugh terr mongers. A Waitara corre* • pondent, writing of the performance in | Waitara, said: ‘■ 'Bran Pie’ has ’been on the menu in N- ■? Plymouth for. four nights and has .been so heartily partaken of, masticated and digested, that it will not be necessary for me- to go -into, details in regard to the performance given m the Theatre Royal, Waitara, last night. ‘ But; why ‘Bran Pip’? It is far too drv a name to give to the excellent performance of the New Plymouth entertainers before the packed house. A bran pie—a mash indeed! Why, the pie was crammed with plums, plump, juicy plums, which one could thoroughly enjoy and feel the better for the feast. The company must he thoroughly tired ot receiving congratulations, but it cannot be helped, they must accept the congratulations of Waitara on the way the whole performance and the arrangements were carried out.” The box plan will open at Collier’s tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock.