ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE. • ‘ OUTSIDE THE LAW.” Commenting on “Outside the Law”, which commences at the Empire to-night for a three-night season, the Sydney Herald states: “With Priscilla Dean as a stonyhearted queen of the underworld, and Lon Chaney as a powerful rat in whose heart lurks no slightest ray of loyalty or fear, and with half a dozen, other actors, whose presence alone may make a picture, “Outside the Law” drew large audiences to the Australian, Hoyt’s De Luxe and the Piccadilly Theatres last night, when it received its initial presentation. Nominally a “crook play”, Tod Browning has woven into his picture a wealth of human action and emotion against the warp of an intense Oriental devotion to the ideal. In “Outside the Law” Miss Dean has the part she was born for—that of Silky Moll Madden, sweet, wise, and unsentimental. Lon Chaney, uf “The Miracle Man”, plays “Black Mike” Silva, a product of San Francisco’s slums, whose revenge is only foregone when death steps in. His characterisation is absolutely marvellous. The picture is one of the most realistic portrayals of underworld life and gangster activities ever seen on the screen.” Intending patrons should reserve at Collier’s.

EVERYBODY’S LAST NIGHT OF ‘THE STILL ALARM”. Thomas Santschi and Fritzi Brunette are co-starred in ‘‘The Still Alarm”, concluding to-night at Everybody’s. The filming of the great fire scenes in this picture cost a small fortune in itself, for it was necessary, to secure the required effects, to burn an eight-storey chemical factory, as well as a large mansion, which in the play represents the home of the heroine of the story. In the making of these scenes seven fire companies were used to fight the flames, and the picture shows the men resting at the fire stations at the time the “still alarm.” is received by the sweetheart of the heroine; the entire department rushing madly down the street, and tbe fighting of the flames, together with many hairbreadth escapes from falling stairways and crumbling walls. The bill includes gazette, comedy and “The Invisible Hand”. Tomorrow’s change presents Malvina Longfellow in the big English production, “The Story of the Rosary”. This picture screens at the matinee on Saturday at 2 p.m.

THE PEOPLE'S. DORALDINA IN “PASSION FRUIT”. “Passion Fruit”, a strong photodrama of pulsing conflict, love and hate in the heavy-scented tropics, opens at the People’s to-night for a run of two nights, as the feature attraction. This production stars the famous Doraldina. Doraldina, known as Queen of Dancers, is a creature of lithe grace and beauty, who has enthralled thousands upon thousands by her unique interpretative Hawaiian dances. She popularised many hula dances, and earned fabulous sums teaching the wealthy these dances. In this, her first Metro starring picture, she has wide scope for her terpsichorean activities, for the picture begins with an insult to a girl at a charity vaudeville performance, and comes to a climax when Doraldina, acting the part of Regina Dominant, has to dance one of her wildest dances to save the man she loves. “The Diamond Queen”, conclusion of “King of the Circus”, gazette and comedy complete this big super-bill.