ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF TOM MIX. “THE BIG TOWN ROUND- UP.” Tom Mix, the Fox star, is noted as ft cr?.ck shot with rifle or pistoL Jle certainly hit the bull’s eye of popular favor yesterday, at the People’s Theatre, where he opened in his latest picture, “The Big Town Round. Up,” based <»n William McLeod. Raine’s story. Not only did he hit the bull’s eye, but he kept on hitting it in every reel of the film presented. Mix in action is a, veritable embodiment of speed, and never has he been seen here in a photoplay that gave him wider scope for sustained action. The story, a most entertaining one, details the romance of a young ranch owner of Arizona. The romance opens on his ranch when he meets a pretty girl who, with her wealthy father, has been halted on an auto tour by tyre trouble. It is continued and culminates in San Francisco, whither the ranchman goes on business and pleasure combined. In the progress of the story, Mix performs several thrilling rescues and engages in a number of thrilling fights with ’Frisco yeggmen bent upon destroying him—first because he had beaten up the gapg leader, and second because they had been hired for the job by a jealous rival suitor for the heroine’s hand. No lover of healthy open-air photo-plays should miss “The Big Town Round Up.” EVERYBODY’S. xA BIG DOUBLE BILL TO-NIGHT. To-night’s change at Everybody’s presents a double star attraction headed by Blanche Sweet in the J. D. Hampton mystery drama “The Girl in the Web.” A story of love and mystery, it is said to be very unlike anything Miss Sweet has previously done, but gives her every opportunity to display her wonderful range of emotions. Accused of stealing not only jewels, but another woman’s husband, she extricates herself and finds the real criminal in a story that is truly entertaining. The second feature drama, is the Universal production “Desperate Youth.” Miss Walton appears as Rosemary Merridew, the daughter of a mountain prospector. At her father’s death she is sent to Alabama to become a member of the household of her aunt, a Southern aristocrat of unbearable hauteur. Rosemary is treated like a servant and kept in the background —but her beauty shines as a beacon to the richest young fellow in town. He passes up her snobbish cousin to marry her. Seats may be reserved at Collier’s.