ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1921, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. BLANCHE SWEET IN “FIGHTING CRESSY.” . A Sweet-Harte drama of rugged Califormia is an adequate double description of the feature on the programme at Everybody’s .Theatre to-night. “Fighting Cressy” is the attraction in which Blanche Sweet stars in a Bret Harte story. Bret Hart succeeded as no other author did in putting the romance of one of nature's most beautiful and romantic spots, California, into literature. He knew and loved the great open West “out where the hand clasps a little stronger, out where the smile dwells a little longer.” ‘"Cressy” from which “Fighting Cressy” has been adapted by Fred Myton, is the romance of a true daughter of the West. Spirited, fearless, undaunted, Cressy never needed defending.. She fought her own battles and fought them well. In fact, she succeeded in bringing to an end the bitter feud existing between her family and the Harrisons. Blanche Sweet discloses an entirely new side to her personality in the title role of “Fighting Cressy.” Russell Simpson, Walter Perry, and Frank Lanning are cast in delightful character parts supporting Misiy Sweet. The bill includes gazette, comedy, and “The Lost City." The matinee to-mor-row commences at 2 p.m. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF VIOLA DANA. .All of the famous racing and gambling resorts of Tia Juana, Mexico, below the southern boundary of California, were converted into a gigantic picture setting as one of the unique bf Metro’s special production of 'Thrppets of Fate,” the photodrama by Donn Byrne, starring Viola Dana, screening finally to-night at the People’s. The l original story by Mr. Byrne from which the picture is being filmed, calls for a big gambling scene in which the hero wins a small fortune. Although an entire business strict, a home and a barber shop had been erected on the Metro lot for previous scenes, Bayard director of productions at the West Coast Studios, decided that nothing sufficiently true to life could be arranged Crt Metro's six blocks of open and enclosed stages to serve the purpose of this scene. So, under special arrangement with the authorithC at the Mexican Monte Carlo, sj . races, were scheduled, all of the W' . a own t-harae-ters of the travk-s Competing-. The bill includes gsuette, comedy, aad “The Diamond Queen.” SONG'AND PIANOFORTE RECITAL. In this issue Arnold Sturrock, L.Mus., T.C.L., announces that he is giving a song and pianoforte recital in the Em- : pire Theatre on Monday, December 19.