ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1921, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “LORD AND LADY ALGY. 5 ’ There is a most interesting cast in “Lord and Lady Algy,” concluding tonight, at the People’s. Opposite the star, Tom Moore, is Naoirii Childers, who is rapidly winning her way to the hearts of lovers of the photo-play. She plays the part of Lady Algy. It is a racing romance all right, and has more speed and dash than the fastest thoroughbred that ever scampered over the turf. All the trouble started, when his honor, Lord Algy, has to choose betwen keeping his wife and playing the horses, and took 1 the latter course. But friend wife had a little trick up her sleeve, and when Algy staked the family fortune on a sure bet, something happened. To-mor-row’s change presents the big Sezlnick feature "Society Snobs,” with Conway Te&rie and Marth. Mansfield. The matinee to-morrow commences at 2 p.m. EVERYBODY’S. “THE WORLD AFLAME.” One cannot recall any serious film drama of quite such interest to every element comprising the vast constituency of the silent stage as “The World Aflame,” commencing to-night at Everybody’s, with Frank Keenan as star. Primarily, it is a play for thinkers, a play with a message, but at the same time jt is a play for those whose craving is satisfied with straight drama', the drama of tense situation, of vivid and incessant action, with the heart touch and the live’ interest. Nothing more timely has come before our fiotice. The story of “The World Aflame” is a panoramic thesis on industrial conditions of the country to-day. It is a problem play which does not lower its curtain with the mere expounding of the problem, but goes further in that it supplies the answer to the problem in an undeniably convincing fashion. The bill includes “Lost City,” gazettes and. comedy. ~The matinee tomorrow commences at 2 p.mEMPIRE THEATRE. The Great McEwen is opening his New Plymouth season this evening. The Hawera Star said: —“But most remarkable of McEwen’s performances is his exhibition of thought-reading. With a committee of residents on the .stage the magician, blindfolded, correctly informs them of the numbers they have chosen, and their positions, though these were hidden from all but the committee. The mesmeric part of the entertainment provides mirth as well as food for wonderment. With .some young men selected ; from the audience he sent them into a hypnotic sleep. To see the whole group frantically “barracking” at an imaginary football match, or playing marbles under the impression that they are small boys, or toying in puzzled wonderment with noses which to them had assumed the resilient properties of rubber, gives the audience a maximum of mirth, and the laughter is stimulated when McEwen causes his subjects to. go off into fits of uncontrollable laughter The magician is assisted by “The Mysterious Marcy,” and by Miss Hebe Saint, a yoimg Australian elocutionist, who soon wins her way into the heart® of her audi-