ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. Powerful, thrilling, and in the same breath tender and exquisite, can truthfully be said of “The Money Changers,” concluding to-night at Everybody’s. It is a Hampton-Pathe production. Upton Sinclair wrote the story around a theme contained in Mr. Sinclair’s novel oi the same name. The picture commands interest at the very start, quickly plunging into the -story, which introduces characters in New York’s high society and then shifts into Chinatown. To expose the drug gang is the ambition of a young reporter. The action leads fast and furiously up to,a climax that stirs •the emotions to fever heat. The concluding.. episode of ‘.‘The Silent Avenger,” gazettes and comedy are also on thia bill. To-morrow’s change -presents Violet Ho-pson and Stewart Rome in the big “AU-British” production “Her Son.” THE PEOPLE’S. “SKIRTS” TO-NIGHT. In the Fox six-reel comedy spectacle “Skirts,” which opens its run at the People’s Theatre to-night, there are several of the most thrilling and daring and difficult feats that were ever shown in motion pictures. Some of these stuhts are as follows: Rushing at break-neck speed on a runaway horse, a girl is rescued by a man in a racing automobile, who snatches her to safety. The automobile, speeding along with rescued and rescuer, is halted only after the front wheels are hanging over the edge 1 of a precipice. From the top of. a train running at fifty miles an hour a girl, who has climbed to the roof of a car to escape pursuers, is saved by an airship, which sweeps down and lifts her into the air. This, feat is performed by a man hanging by his toes from the body of the ’plane. There is a thrilling parachute descent from an airship at an altitude of two thousand feet. A runaway train dashing through, a turning forest rushes upon a blazing bridge, which crashes beneath its weight, plunging the train into a stream. A circus in Kansas is struck by a tornado. Tents and cages and paraphernalia are carried away by the storm. An automobile is hurled through the air and landed in a tree. The Singer Midgets, who take refuge in Old Mother Hubbard’s Shoe, are caught up by the cyclone and go sailing into space. At the banquet in a vast hall, an army of Sunshine Widows march into the room, pass down between the guests, and dance across the tables. This is the most massive and spectacular beauty show ever depicted. It is here that some of the marvellous costumes that enrich “Skirts” are displayed. At a bathing suit emporium scores of beautiful women display the costumes that are on exhibition at this establishment. Aside from the story, which is replete with unusually amusing situations, “Skirts” is of special interest because it marks a radical departure in big screen comedies. The matinee tomorrow commences at 3.30. As a great rush is anticipated, intending patrons should be early.

DANCE RECITAL. MISS ELLIS AND PUPILS TO-NIGHT. It is hardly necessary to remind theatre-goers of the dance recital to be given in the Empire Theatre to-night and Thursday next by Miss Ellis and her pupils, That the public has been looking forward with great expectation to the recital has been manifested at the local box office, where there has been a record booking. For the past three months Miss Ellis and her pupils have been kept busy rehearsing the many fancy dances which arc to appear as numbers on the programme, and quite a treat is in store for patrons of the. recital, as not only are they bright and varied, but the dressing is of a very bright and charming nature. To assist in the entertainment the services of Mrs. A. B. Macdonald, Mr. A. L. North (vocalists), and Mr. A. O. Sturrock (pianist), whose popularity with New Plymouth audiences increases with each appearance they make, have been secured. They will be heard in entirely new numbers. Theatre-goers may therefore look forward to a full evening’s entertainment of an unusually high order. Box plans -for to-night’s and Thursday’s recitals are now open at Collier’s.