ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THROUGH JUNGLE WILDS. STRIKING LECTURE AND PICTURES The nature study picture and lecture, now being given by Mr. H. K. Eustace at the Empire and Everybody’s Theatres, impresses upon those who see and hear the entertainment that the great central regions of the “Dark Continent” are as a sealed book to most people, but the occasional tales that * leak through from the big game hunters who have challenged the merciless jungle have created a romantic atmosphere about the words “Dark Africa” that grows on one from childhood. Often one Jias wished to tear aside tlie veil of mystery that still obscures the great wild life within Africa’s almost impenetrable ramparts, but he who would venture within must do so at a risk th£t has too often proved fatal. For dread disease, sweltering heat, endless and waterless deserts and trackless, tropical forests guard the greatest existing animal kingdom in the world. Mr. H. K. Eustace, who hunted in the jungles for 27 years, is showing in picture form and story actual scenes and reminiscences collected throughout that long period at great personal risk, and it is safe to say that no more remarkable or fascinatihg film of animal life has ever been presented in New Zealand. The picture opens with views of the ancient Khami ruins and wonderful scenes of the great Victoria falls, and follows on through an amazing series of animal life scenes, for the most part taken at close range, and some breaking off at the hair-raising stage, because the photographer had a valuable life to save. The lion, rhinoceros, hipponotamus, and all the thousand brutes are truly depicted in their natural haunts by “the camera that does not lie,” and the whole film is one of absorbing interest.

At the opening children’s matinee at Everybody’s Theatre yesterday, every available space was packed by fully, a thousand children, and the picture arid the lecturer received a rousing reception. All the New Plymouth schools, and many from the surrounding districts, contributed their quota to the throng, the children being released early from the schools to allow them to attend. Again to a packed house at the Empire Theatre last night the picture was presented, and it will be shown again at a matinee Everybody’s to-day, and at the Empire to-night. To-night concludes the season of the famous big game hunter, Harry K. Eustace, with his unique film, “Through Jungle Wilds.” Great crowds turned out yesterday, and hundreds were turned away unable to gain admission. The school matinee will be held to-day at Everybody's Theatre at 2.15, and tonight’s performance at the Empire concludes the visit to New Plymouth. Intending patrons should reserve at Collier’s for to-night. EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “THE WHITE DOVE.” The powerful novel by William J. Locke, “The White Dove,” ia on the screen at Everybody’s, where it concludes to-night, having opened there yesterday, when large audiences found that advance promises on the production were well kept. The. picture is a Robertson-Cole special. H. B. Warner is the star, and he is supported by a company which includes Claire Adams, Virginia 1/ee Corbin, William O. Barrows, Herbert Greenwood, Donald McDonald and Ruth Renick. There are a number of interesting scenes in London life, most of them penetrating high artistic and society circles, but the earlier and latter parts of the picture are laid in a typical English village, and on the estate of an English gentleman. The bill includes gazettes, comedy and “The Invisible Hand.” THE PEOPLE’S. A Metro de luxe feature, “A Modern Salomo,” presenting Hope Hamption, the woman beautiful, is on the new bill at the People’s to-night. It is a scintillating drama of modern high society, points thundering moral, arid presents a gripping story of romance and intrigue. The bill includes gazettes, comedy and “The Diamond Queen,” episode 3.