ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. RENO AND ARTA TO-DAY AT 2. p.m. The big attraction at Everybody’s is the re-appearance of the popular duo, Reno and Arta, who delighted local audiences some weeks ago. This company has been specially brought back to play a short return season prior to their departure, abroad. The picture portion of the programme will present Earle Williams in his big Vitagraph feature, “The Purple Cypher”, a weird and thrilling story of San Francisco’s mysterious Chinatown; there is as much excitement,as is usually seen inj fifteen episodes of a serial. The story has fine dramatic value, and furnishes Earle Williams and his supporting cast with opportunities that are seldom seen on the screen. The far-reaching baud of a murderous tong is responsible for most of the action, which consists of warnings of death to four members of a family, who, at the hour appointed, each time mysteriously disappear, and are apparently the victims of hte tong. There is a tremendous surprise at the close of the picture. The bill includes gazette and Christie comedy. The full programme as presented at night will be put on at the matinee, the concession prices for which are Is 6d and Is, children 6d. Night prices: 2s and Is fid. Box plan at Collier’s.

THE PEOPLE’S. BETTY HILBURN IN “GIRL OF THE SEA”. In “Girl of the Sea”, commencing at the Peapie’s at the matinee to-day at 2, the first Selznick de luxe attraction, starring Betty Hilburn, the audience is taken to the bottom of the ocean, where many pictures were taken through a wonderful invention known as the submarine tube, which enables the operator to take photographs of the wonderful life on the ocean’s bed. All the scenes were taken in the tropics, and most of them on a little island in the West Indies, where the action of the story is laid. Here a girl has been cast ashore during a shipwreck years before, and has lived most of her life alone, depending on the natural resources of her Surroundings for her subsistence. With the coming of a rescuing party, a lively drama follows, in which the girl is the central figure. The drama is full of suspense and intense situations with thrills aplenty. They include a battle with a giant octopus, a fight in the shrouds of the ship, attempted assassination beneath the ocean, and the efforts of a band of scoundrels io get possession of the wealth that rightfully belongs to the girl. “Moonriders,” gazette and comedy complete the bill. THE EMPIRE. LAST NIGHT OF PRISCILLA DEAN. Priscilla Dean in her big Universal sixreel super-play, “The Exquisite Thief,” screens finally to-night at the Empire. “The Exquisite Thief” is the story of a supercrook—and she’s a girl. She has caused the police to employ “stool-pigeons” from her own environment to trap her—and even they fail to see in Blue-Jean Billie the clever jewel thief who had pulled off the most sensational robberies in police annals. The bill includes a big “Joe Martin” comedy entitled “The Monkey Hero” and gazettes. Prices are Is 6d and Is, and reserves may be procured at Collier's. A WORLD-FAMOUS -TRIO. LEO, JAN AND MISCHEL CHERNIAVSKY. The musical topic of the week is the reappearance in the Empire Theatre, New Plymouth, next Monday evening, of the famous Russian classical trio of instrumentalists, Leo, Jan and Mischel Chemi avsky. These remarkable young men come from a musical family of nine. Leo, the eldest of the three, is a protege of Ysaye, the world-famous Belgian violinist, and one of his treasured possessions is a photograph of the old master, endorsed “To my young colleague/’ Jan, the pianist, studied under Leschetizky, the eminent. Venetian teacher, who regards his pupil as one of the most brilliant pianists of the modem school. Mischel, the youngest performer, attained his unique position as a ’cellist under the guidance of the well-known coAi-poser-performer, David Popper, and he is now considered to be one of the finest exponents of Popper's works. For seventeen years these musicians have toured the world together, at first as boy prodigies, and later, as mature artists. Not only do they constitute one of the finest instrumental trios of the day, but they are also recognised as being amongst the world’s greatest solo performers. The New York Times said: “They thrilled us again and again. They are really great artists.” Messrs. J. and N. Tait, who are directing the present New Zealand tour, are doing so with the assurance that the former keen interest of New Zealanders in the Cherniavskys will have increased immeasurably since their last triumphant tour through the Dominion six years ago. The plan for the forthcoming New Plymouth concert is at Collier’s. To-night the Cherniavskys will appear at Stratford.

LOUISE MACK’S MATINEE. A JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE. A packed house greeted Miss Louise Mack at her matinee at the Empire Theatre yesterday, many being turned away. The Mayor (Mr. F. E. Wilson) acted as chairman. Miss Mack then took the audience travelling, telling them first of famous towns and people she had personally known —Antwerp in her death agony, Nurse Gavel! in Brussels, Gabriel d’Annunzio in his home in Florence, were all described in Miss Mack’s own inimitable way. In moving pictures the audience then went to Russia and quaint Moscow and its wonderful bell of the Kremlin, and a superb Russian dancer, and the thousands churches and domes, and the old square full of fluttering pigeons being fed by peasant women. The pictures of Moscow were taken after the Czar had been dethroned, before the Bolsheviks came in. Tljen to Holland, to Italy and Rome, the journey was continued. Pisa with her wealth of architecture. Then France was visited, first by means of a really exquisite French costume play, from Victor Hugo’s “Paris Before the French Revolution”, showing the French arstocracy, the thieves in the cellars under the city, the Norman peasants, and as Miss Mack lectured to the picture its educational value must have been great. Then modern France was shown, -r-wonderful modern France, in the field. The seventy-five gun in action, the French artillery and infantry, Rheims Cathedral, “the soul of France”, as Miss Mack described it. Miss Mack will appear again at the Empire next Tuesday night.