ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. MATINEE TO-DAY, AT 2.30. To-day’s matinee, commencing at 2.30, opens the week-end special bill, presenting the big Paramount special production “Behind the Door,” featuring Hobart Bosworth. The leading roles are taken by Hobart' Bosworth, Jane Novak and Wallace Beery. “Behind the Door” is an example of the best work of Thos. H. Ince, producer of “The Guilty Man,” “The False Faces,” and many other remembered photo-plays. It, too, is a production that will live. Linked in its scope are the gentleness of love and the fury of .revenge, the tenderness of af fection and the implacability of hate — and behind it all is the thought that mortal grief shall prove the immortality of love, and while earth may it cannot destroy a love divinely given. The box plans are at Collier’s. This huge programme shows at usual prices. ALL BRITISH NIGHTS, NEXT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. A great deal of interest and favorable comment has been evident amongst film patrons in New Plymouth upon the merit of pictures now coming to hand from British producers. Pictures such as "Darby and Joan,” “Keeper of the Door,” “The Strange Case of Lady Camber,” and “Lady Clare” emphasise the fact that British motion picture producers are fast making up the leeway lost during the war period. The public have had a surfeit of “how America won the war” pictures, and are just as anxiously waiting for good British pictures as are the majority of the picture theatre managers. To draw public attention to the rapid progress of the English pictures, the management have arranged a big special programme for Everybody’s next Monday and Tuesday, when the principal features will be the screening of. two big British produced motion pictures, from stories by British authors, and played by British actors. Tlie pictures to be screened are “Rocks of Valpre,” from Ethel M. Dell’s popular novel, and "Westward Ho,” from the famous novel by Charles Kingsley. The first picture is from the' Stoll studio, who produced “Keeper of the Door,” and the second from the studio of British Master Films, who produced “Darby-and Joan.” The management are putting forth a special effort to arouse interest in the two nights screening, and are also making a special display of bunting in and around the theatre on the nights of screening. The public are already taking a lot of interest in the event, and there is a steady demand for seats at Collier’s. Those desirous of securing good positions should losf, no time in reserving seats.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF MAY ALLISON. “Are All Men Alike?” featuring charming May Allison, and concluding to-night at the People’s, is an absorbing photoplay adapted by A. L. Younger from Arthur Stringer’s well-known novel, “The Waffle Iron,’’ that appeared serially in McClure’s Magazine. It tells the captivating story of a poor little rich girlwho feels cramped by the conventional surroundings of her home and is tempted to try her winos for a flight in Greenwich Village, and there proceeds to learn some things 'about men that were never printed in her private school books. The bill includes “King of the Circus.” gazettes and comedy. To-morrow’s change, commencing at the matinee at 2 p.m., presents June Caprice in “The Love Cheat,” a Pathe. special production. The bill includes “Moonriders,” gazettes and comedy. THE EMPIRE. HARRY CAREY IN “BARE FISTS.” Harry Carey, Universal’s popular Western star, appears to excellent advantage in his latest photo-play “Bare Fists,” commencing to-night at the Empire. “Bare Fists” is a characteristic story. Providing the usual ingredients of the typical “Western”—hard riding, straight shooting and tense drama—it has also those human touches that have come to be associated with Carey pictures, and which distinguish them from the usual run of cowboy melodramas. Tfic bill includes "Tough Luck.” a splendid two-reel comedy, and gazettes. The season concludes’to-morrow night.