ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. THE "JACK-KNIFE MAN.” I Human interest, comedy and. pathos are the predominating features in the new King Vidor photo-play “The Jackknife Man,” the attraction at Everycommencing to-night. A shanty boat on the Mississippi River forms the chief setting of this delightful picture, and its owner, old Peter, “the Jack-knife Man,” is one of the most unique and lovable characters reproduced on the screen in many moons. _Rllis Parker Butler has furnished a wealth of unique personages in this story that are novel and interesting, and the quaiatness of it all makes for an appeal to.the author that is extremely strong. King Vidor has cast this picture with unusual care, and every member of the talented cast is fitted to the role with an intelligence that insures a finished performance. The cast headed by Florence Vidor, includes Fred Turner, Harry Todd, Claire MeDowel and Bobby Kelso. The bill includes gazette, comedy and “Lure of the Circus.” NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY. “MAN—WOMAN—MARRIAGE.” With more than fordinjary pleasure the management of Everybody’s Theatre announces the presentation of “Man — Woman—Marriage,” the biggest motion picture of the year, next Monday. A special First National attraction, directed by Allen Holubar and starring Dorothy Phillips, this production has beer! aptly termed a mighty milestone in ifiotion pictures. There could be no better name for a picture that is at once a wonderful romance and drama of mother-right, told from a mother’s heart, and combined with vast spectacular moments wherein thousands of actors, pagan dancers and barbaric beauties, participate. Untrammelled orgies in the courts of Caesar are contrasted with society life of to-day. the fights of the Amazons of old who went plunging bare-legged, bare armed, barechested into battle wifh the men, are contrasted with the battle of our women against the shackles of man-made marriage and man-made divorce. The story is told in nine unforgettable acts, and there is not a moment of them which does not carry -heart-appeal, breath-taking thrill, tensest drama, delightful humor, or inspiring vastness. The box plans are now open at Collier’e.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “FINE FEATHERS.” “Fine Feathers,” an unusually dramatic story, concludes at the People’s tonight. ft tells of Bob Reynolds, a young construction engineer, who succumbs to temptation when John Brand, a wealthy man without a conscience, offers him the means to riches through making a statement that a certain grade of inferior cement stands the test. Reynolds later tumbles from his pinnacle and he accuses his wife of being the •cause, through her love of fineries. There are too many exciting moments in the ’ picture for anyone to complain of dullness. The bill includes gazette, comedy and “The Fatal Sign.” “A MAN’S HOME” TO-MORROW. The big Selzniek super attraction, “A Man’s Home,” commences at the People’s to-morrow, 'at the matinee at 2 p.m. In the story Frederick Osborn is a self-made young man, among other things president of the very steamship company by which he was once employed as stevedore. He is too intent upon the enlargement of his fortune to seek social relaxation or in this pursuit to encourage his wife. So long as she does not annoy him he lavishes money upon her, and lets her make her friends where she pleases. She is content with the superficial polish of the “Broadway crowd,” and falls in with Jack Wilson and his putative sister, Cordelia, who fleece her handsomely while concealing their operations. He had given her an abundance of worldly goods, but denied her the love she craved, choosing to dominate her as if she were an employed*. No wonder Mrs. Osborn fell into the power of the notorious Cordelia Wilson. No wonder the shadow of her indiscretion bore down to stain the life of her innocent daughter. But thenin the nick of time the man realised it all —and with the fury of an outraged husband he drove the interlopers from his home to win again the love of an erring wife. The picture is interpreted by an° all-star cast, headed by Ralph Ince. The bill will include “Adventures of Tarzan,” gazettes and comedy.