ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “MY HUSBAND’S OTHER WIFE.” Built upon a most dramatic situation in either life or fiction, made possible by divorce, “My Husband’s Other Wife”, at Everybody’s, with the beautiful Australian, Sylvia Breamer, in the stellar role, cannot fail to entertain and please. An actress with no use for home and children, married to . a doctor with ambitions for working good gratifies her whims by the divorce route. Later she realises her loss when her husband finds happiness, home and children in another union. It is the sour grapes story in. a new light, and she tries to recover the affection she has lost. Tensely dramatic are the situations which lead up to a finale that is beautiful and enobling when the actress makes her sacrifice for the young girl-wife of the man she herself could not appreciate until too late. The bill includes a Vitagraph two-reel comedy, “Silent Avenger”, and gazettes. THE PEOPLE’S. last Night of “the road to AMBITION.” “The Road to Ambition”, concluding tonight at the People’s, presents Conway Tearle in an ideal strong man roll. Bill Matthews (played by Conway Tearle) is an ambitious laborer in the steel mills of Bethlehem. Overcoming, by dint of study and application, his ignorance, he then becomes a powerful factor in his field of endeavor. There is a pretty love theme running throughout the story, which is a colorful one, with plenty of the virile action the photoplay enthusiasts so enjoy. There is also shown a fine “Flynn” detective drama, “Outlaws of the Deep”, and gazettes. WM. FARNUM IN “DRAG HARLAN”. TO MORROW AND WEDNESDAY. A good old Western story, in which the hero can draw his gun just a little ahead of all comers, will open to-morrow night at the People’s. This is “Drag Harlan”, a William Fox production, starring William Famum. “Drag Harlan” has departed clear out of the category of the stereotyped “Western”. It contains all the elements that admirers of Western drama demand in this kind of. picture, but it is blessed beyond others of its kind by the personality of William Famum. The only old stuff, so called, in the picture is the thin that simply cannot be excluded from any picture, play or story—that is romance. The story concerns a mysterious personage, whose name is uttered with trembling lips by every man, woman and child in the West—“ Drag” Harlan, whose strange “handle” was won by a peculiar trick of drawing his gun in a fight. There is enough gun-play to satisfy the most exacting spectator, yet there is none of that tawdry cheapness or luridness which so often creeps into this sort of picture. Jackie Saunders is the leading woman. Others in the cast are Nelson Millett, G. Raymond Nye, Herschel Mayall, Frank Thurwald, “Kewpie" Morgan, Al Fremont and Erie Crane. J. Gordon'Edwards directed the production from a story by Charles Alden Seltzer. Famum clearly outdoes all his Zane Grey characterisations, and sets a standard that will probably not be equalled for a generation at least. The box plan is at Collier’s.

MALE CHOIR CONCERT. What promises to be a great treat for the music-loving public of New Plymouth and surrounding district is the approaching concerts to' be given by the New Plymouth Male Choir'at the Empire Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20 and 21. The society is again to be congratulated on securing such a high class artist as New Zealand’s greatest tenor, Mr. Ernest Drake, who has just returned from a visit to the Old Country, where lie met with phenomenal success. At his first concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, where Mr. Drake was associated with Miss Rosina Buckman, Madame Melba and Peter Dawson, he created a furore, and after the singing of seven numbers the audience was so carried away that they rose to their feet and cheered. That in itself speaks volumes of Mr. Drake’s ability as a vocalist, and the best English critics credit him as being one of the best tenors that has ever visited London. Others who will assist the choir include the Melody Four, and Mr. A. L. Moore (elocutionist). The prices are very popular, and tickets may be had at Collier’s, or from any of the choir members.