ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 February 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN. The popular Selznick star, Elaine Kammerstein, does some of her finest work in “Handcuffs and Kisses,” concluding to-night at the People’s. Tlje -bill includes ga/.ette, comedy, -and “The Branded Four.” WM. RUSSELL TO-MORROW. A new Fox picture, “The Lady from Longaere,” starring William Russell, comes to the PeOiple’s to-inorrow. This photo-play affords Mr. Russel] a vehicle in which to display both his histrionic powei’ and his ability in a “rough-and-tune —brings . Princess Isabel as tune—brings Princess Princess Isabel as a fugWve to England from her kingdom of Livadia. Two foreigners attack her. Tony is on the acene, and comes to her rescue, and then learns that she has fled from her country to escape a distasteful marriage. Isabel later is kidnapped, and Tony follows across the sea in his yacht to rescue her. The ending is one that should plase all, according to reviewers of this stirring comedydrama. EVERYBODY’S. MAHLON HAMILTON IN “HALF A CHANCE.” The greatest of strength, of character that can be placed before a man on this earth is to achieve greatness after the world has declared him “down and out.” In “Half a Chance,” the starring attraction at Everybody’s Theatre tonight, Ma-hlon Hamilton has the role of a man who asked only half a chance to make good after he had sunk to the depths of despair. This called for an actor of powerful physique and refinement, who could portray both the Barbary Coast prize-fighter and the cultured and refined man of society and a brilliant lawyer. There could have been no better selection than Mahlon Hamilton. Splendid as has been his screen career, his portrayal of “Sailor” Burke, and later John Steele, is a classic. Among men, women and children he wil] be admired. There is a strong supporting cast in this feature, headed, by the popular Lillian xueh. The second attraction on this bill is the two-reel special Larry Senion comedy “The Bakery,” a self-raising- uproar of merriment full of flowery frolics and doughty doings.

THE REAL CIRCUS AND . MENAGERIE. A real travelling menagerie, with its four ponderous elephants, lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, jackals, polar bears, brown and grizzly bears, monkeys, etc. A real circus, with real ring horses and performing ponies, horses fh liberty acts, and horses in menage acts, all young and blue-blooded, performing elephants, trained lions and tigers. A circus place to place. Such a circus is that owned and personally conducted by the Messrs. Wirth Bros., whose home is Australia. It is Australia's representative show, of travel and experience. It has twice travelled the world, the only circus in the world to accomplish this feat. It has met. opposition in strange lands, and has always come out victorious. The proprietors have travelled round the globe a dozen times seeking novelties and sensations. They have been everywhere, seen everything, and got everything worth having, their vast experience teaching them the wants of the public, and they spare no expense in satisfying their needs. Each year this huge circus has grown and improved, until now it is one o-f the greatest amusement institutions under the sun; there are only two other travelling circuses in the world that r can compare with this ammense aggregation, whose toweripg stature throws its mighty shadow bn all others, and envelopes them in dim twilight of the commonplace. It is indeed a huge concern, employing nearly 200 hands, 80 horses, and scores of dens of animals, its huge marquee, capable of holding 5000 persons, is covered in throughout, and is both wind and waterproof, and has thousands of yards more canvas in its construction than all other shows in Australia combined. Its proof this year is a veritable network, of aerial riggings, on which perform the very best aerialists the world has ever seen. The circus will perfom at New Plymouth on Saturday, February 25, one night only.