ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. SPECIAL MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2 P.M. A unique matinee programme has been arranged for Everybody’s this af- i ternoon at 2 p.m. and again to-morrow Captain Winter will appear with his • wonderful trained dogs really the acme in animal training and will hi Iso give his famous London punch and judy show, which has gained him fame all over Australia. It is a clever performance that will interest the adults and absolutely delight the kiddies. The marvellous Howards will also appear in the remarkable menial’telepathy and thought reading turn which has oven attracted the attention of Bis Majesty the King. Supporting these two big special turns will be the week-end picture special "Treasure Island.'’ This classic production is an adaption by Maurice Toucneur of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, telling its tale of the swashbuckling days of the Spanish main. The picture presents a wealth of incident, a full : quota of 1 brill* and contains all the I unusual atmosphere and colorful characters of .Stevenson's famous story. The • Howards and. Captain Winter will api pear at the matinees only, both to-day * and .Saturday. The evening session programme will consist of ‘Treasure Island” and the Robertson Cole special feature “The Turn of the Road." Matinee prices are adults Is 66 and Is, children 6d. And the night prices, dress circle 2s, stalls Is 6d. Seats may now be reserved at Collier’s. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “THE BRAT.” Adapted by Nazimova and Charles . Bryant from the sensational stage success written and starred in by Maude Fulton and put into scenario form by the clever June Mathis, “The Brat” is a screen epic. It tells the story of a shim child with a woman’s heart. It begins with her life in the chorus of a cheap musical comedy. It peeps behind the scenes into a realm of unreality, heavy with the odor of grease paint and guttering with the tinsel of frivolity.' She is known os’ "the brat” simply “the brat" and nothing more. She is slanky. quick tempered and spunky. But she loves every living thing. One night she is “fired” because her “wardrobe” is too shabby even for the tawdry crowd that surrounds her. She leaves the theatre and is insulted by a masher. She slaps his face and he, in turn, has her arrested, falsely charging her with having accosted him. “rhe brat” is haled to the Night Court. She is hungry and desperate and almost anxious to go to a cell, for there she knows she will be fed. But a famous author, present in the drab tribunal for the purpose of studying the seamy side of life, sees in this waif of the gutters an ideal “type” for the heroine of his new novel. * He salvages her from the wrecks in the dock and takes her home. There a new life opens for the brat. By slow degrees she blossoms; her real woman's nature comes out and the . novelist begins to take an interest m her. Here jealously rears its head, and the story develops jpto a situation that ’ has all the power and fascination of a classical drama. Nazimova is superb in > the part of “The Brat,” and moves the . onlooker to smiles and tears at quick intervals. To-night will be the final J opportunityw view this fine .picture.