ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

i THE PEOPLE’S I VIOLA DANA—“CINDERELLA’S TWIN.” j This letter is intended.to give yon a little glimpse into the picture, “Cinderella’s Twin,” which you have heard cf and which stars the irrepressible bit o' fun, Viola Dana. You recall the old story, don’t you? Well, here it isn’t a fairy godmother with rats and a pumpkin, but jewel-pulling crooks with limousines, that tutn the trick. And the trick! Just uhht of taking pretty Connie Mi-Gill from her day dreams in a scullery and landing her in an honest-to-goodness mansion where she meet.; her Prince Charming. Come and see .Cinderella drop the slipper and outwit the thieves that lAive made her a pawn. It begins to-night at the People’s, “King of the Circus” gazettes and comedy are also on the hill. EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “MAN’S DESIRE.” “Man’s Deeire,” with Lewis S. Ston * and an all-star cast, concluding to-night at Everybody’s, is good fare for picture patrons. Tense and gripping in its I theme, this drama of t-lrfe north-west ; lumber country presents the forceful Lewis S. Stone, noted star of the stage and pictures in a masterful portrayal, it is the story of two men and a girl—one man a brute in mind and body, who loved in primitive fashion, the other the product of civilisation and cities who won the frghtened girl of the woods. It was I taken in the picturesque out-doons, amid I sno-w scenes and a big lumber camp in • operation, and i<s the picturisation o'f ■ James Oliver Curwood’s fftmous story. , The bill includes Gazette, Interest, coin | edy, and the Vitagraph super-serial, “The Hand.”

Concerning Miss Marie Nilsson, the Scottish soprano who is singing at the Scottish Society’s concert in Stratford to-night, a southern paper writes:—“Miss Nilsson is a forcible and telling singer in dramatic music, for which Nature has fittingly provided her with a voice of colossal proportions, great 'beauty iof tone and extended range, supplemented by a valuable and admirable declamatory instinct.” Some folk-songs of the Hebrides have a breezy distinctiveness not always found amongst primitive music, and Miss Nilsson sang the whole of them with every appreciation of their peculiar characteristics.