ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. SPECIAL MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2.30. A big special matinee at Everybody’s will commence to-day at 3.30, when a bill of far more than ordinary interest will be presented. “Snookey”, the human, ape, appears in the biggest comedy film ever produced, entitled "The Big Show”, a sensational and screamingly funny comedy of life in a big circus. There is also a special performance by Reno and Arta, the famous jazz musicians who more than d< lighted last night’s big audience. The remarkable jazz music, given by the male member of the party, is the last word in jazz music. It is a pell mell blending of syncopated harmonies derived from about 20 weird instruments, and played at an express rate of speed. Their xylophone work is worthy of the highest comment, and proved highly popular with the audience. The dancing of the lady partner was much enjoyed, and formed a very attractive item. The plan for to-night,-is' now open at Collier’s. i THE PEOPLE’S. WM. FARNUM “THE WANDERER”. Beginning this evening, William Farnum, rhe famous motion picture star, will be seen at the People’s Theatre in William Fox’s presentation of a romantic love story, “The Adventurer”, by E. Lloyd Sheldon. This contains a typical Farnum role, and one in which the many followers of the star are promised much. Farnum is cast as a romantic lover, who is as sure with his sword as with his heart. As the hero in "The Adventurer” he is certain to score, for it is the type of role in which he has won his greatest fame as an actor. William Farnum’s ability is as unquestioned as is the fact that he has the largest following of any male screen star in the world. In this romantic drama he is afforded a chance to display those fine histrionic touches which have elevated him to his present eminent position. The bill includes a big Sunshine comedy and-Fox Gazettes.

THE EMPIRE. “THE BETRAYER” TO-MORROW AND THURSDAY. “The Betrayer”, Beaumont Smith’s latest film production, is a romance of New Zealand and Australia. It is an enthralling story, powerfully produced and beautifully photographed. It is probably the most ambitious picture yet turned out by an Australasian produce!. It is certainly the most costly, for, to secure the New Zealand scenes, Beaumont Smith brought a company of twelve people and a complete staff to make the New Zealand scenes for it. The story deals with a youth and a Maori maid who met 20 years before. These two people laughed and loved and parted, but now the youth comes back a grown up man. The Maori girl is dead but in her place is an almost white and beautiful girl. Her age is 19. The man is astonished, and concludes that she is his child. "How can I make amends?” lie asks the old Maori chief, and the old chief fold him that he must adopt her and give her an opportunity amongst her own people, for she is more white than Maori, and so this white man takes this beautiful girl back to Sydney, and there she becomes the rage in local society. The film is acted amongst the wonders of New Zealand, the geysers, hot. springs, clouds of steam rising up the side of precipices from turbulent waters, but after the third roe! the scene changes to Sydney, with its sunny beaches, the bush, its city life and fashionable dancing cafes, but in the end the story comes back to New Zealand. “The Betrayer” will be shown at the Empire to-morrow and Thursday evenings. The box plan is at Collier’s.