ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF ALICE JOYCE TN “COUSIN KATE.” The tremendous success of Hubert Henry Davies’ most popular play “Cousin Kate,” is showing finally to-night, and its special adaptability as a picture drama provides an ideal vehicle for Alice Joyce. As the beautiful and fascinating young Vitagraph star has been referred to as the Marie Tempest of tie screen, it is fitting that she should have the role in which the stage queen scored such a brilliant success. The bill includes gazette, comedy and “The Lost City.” The matinee to-day commences at 2 p.m. BIG SPECIAL MONDAY AND /TUESDAY. Constance Talmadge is seen in a new

gusher of giggles, a piquant play of misses and kisses, “Lessons in Jxjve,”' adapted from Douglas Murray’s comedy* “The Man from Toronto.” Constance is a parlor-maid, the cutest that ever took a young man's hat and heart. That is what “lucssons in Love” presents. And they’re mighty easy lessons to learn when Connie teaches. This time she chose her own story, insisted on doing it, and you can guess it’s a pep personified when it hit her hard. Six reels, too, with humorous hints for hearttroubie all the way from love’s first miss to love’s sixty-first kiss. The box plan is now open at Collier’s. THE PEOPLE’S. EUGENE O’BRIEN IN “IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?” An unusual departure in plot featuies of Eugene O’Brien’s new Selznick picture is “Is Life Worth Living?"’ which will be the featured attraction at the People’s Theatre to-night. It is the customary thing to have a screen hero dangle his heart at the feet of a superior being in the form of the feminine pursued, but in this new production Mr. O’Brien, as Melville Marley, a despondent and discouraged chap. finds himself enchanted by no less a person than a more despondent stenographer, penniless and without friends. The mu includes gazette, travel and comedy, cwin. to railway delays “The Branded Four” No. 10 will not bo shown until next week. The matinee to-day commences at 2 p.m. CHAUTAUQUA. One of the outstanding features of the Ch'autauqua platform will be Fn ™" Peat, of Canada. Private Peat was the best known war lecturer in America during the war period. His book P Peat” had the phenomenal sale of ove a million copies on the American Con.l- - alone, while 6000 copies were soi l in Australia. This versatile writer and lecturer is also the author of Ihe -/ I of Dying.” is correspondent and special

article writer for the New York World. tsie Chicago Herald, the Associat 1 1 Press, and the McLean Publishing Company of Canada. He was lent by the Canadian ’Government to the United States as a war speaker, and was made chief of the speakers’ bureau of the U.S. Fuel Administration. Erivate Peat was featured in the dramatisation of his own book by the Famous Players—La-sky Corporation. He was one of the organisers of the Greater Veterans’ Association of Canada, and had the honor of naming the organisation. At the height of his war popularity, Private Peat was offered 1800 dollars a week for a ten minutes’ lecture on the Orpheum Circuit twice a day. He is to lecture .on “Problems of the Dominions.”