ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODYS. LAST NIGHT OF SESSUE HAYAKAWA. Sessue Hayakawa, the noted Japanese star, will be seen in one of his strongest roles in “Li Ting Lang,” concluding tonight at Everybody’s. Hayakawa is seen in the role of an Americanised Chinese youth, who falls desperately in love with the financee of one of his college chums. Realising the hopelessness of his love, he returns to China and enters the service of his country. Here events shape themselves rapidly and the story moves swiftly to a dramatic climax. Doris Pawn, the beautiful and talented leadh.g woman supports Hayakawa. The bill includes gazettes, travel, and

MARY PICKFORD MONDAY AND TUESDAY. In all the time that Mary Pickford has illuminated the screen with her delightful presence, she has never made a picture that equals her latest, “Heart o’ the Hills,” which shows at Everybody’s next -Monday and Tuesday. As the mountain girl’ in this typical story of the Kentucky hills, of mountain- feuds and of rugged mountain men, she excels herself. From the age of 14, when she promises her father dying from a feudish bullet, that she will “get” his slayer; later when she is cheated out of the heritage by land grabbers, whom she keeps at bay with gun and fists; when she heads the night riders on an errand of retribution; in the dock charged with murder—so absurd a charge that every man-jack of “the jury claims that he fired the fatal shot—during all these phases we have the new, the different Mary. Pickford. Full of perve and charm, in her character of the little spitfire, she is no less delightful than in the later episodes of the picture where she becomes civilised through medium of o high class ladies’ college. It is the old Mary Pickford in a new light—that is all—and sufficient. She has but increased her power to charm. The box plan is now at Collier’s, and intending patrons would be well advised to reserve. THE PEOPLE’S. ELAINE KAMMERSTEIN TO-NIGHT. To-day’s new bill at the People’s, commencing at the matinee at 2 p.m., presents Elaine Kammerstein in Selznick’s latest special feature “Poor Dear Margaret Kirby.” Margaret lured him back with beauty, love, and brains. Lucille showered him with attentions, and used all her womanly cunning towards stealing the love of John Kirby from his wife. The former should have won—but did she? The manner in which this film is developed, and the daring way in which Margaret Kirby defies her accusers, is dramatic, to say the least. This is one. of Kammerstein’s finest films. The bill includes “Flynn Detective,” gazettes, comedy, and “The Moonriders.”