ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “LADDIE,” WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. Everybody’s management announce another big English" film success in the Master Films’ production of "Laddie,” to be screened on Wednesday and Thursday. The story is one of the clean, heart-throb kind that we see only too rarely in cinemas, and Sydney Fairbrother, as the little old mother who is very proud of her successful son, but much too humble to intrude herself on him, gives one of the best character portrayals that the screen has so far yielded. “Laddie” comes as a wholesome change from the sensational American melodrama, and for that reason alone should draw crowded houses. Then it will rank for real sentiment and heart interest far above the most thrilling of the big pictures of that type. Every Britisher will he proud of this picture, and will not be patriotism alone that wil] cause the proud feeling, but a genuine feeling of pleasure that British productions are now equal to any produced anywhere. No person who loves a clean and good story should miss “Laddie.” The box plane are at •Collier’s. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF CONWAY TEARLE. The very entertaining Selznick screen play “After Midnight” features virile Conway Tearle, and concludes its season to-night at the People’s. On the same bill arc gazettes, comedy and “Adventures of Tarzan.” A BIG DOUBLE BILL TO-MORROW. The story of an orphan girl adopted by a rich artist —that is the theme of Shirley Mason’s latest Fox production, to open at the People’#? to-morrow. The romance is one admirably suited to Miss Mason, and carries an acute interest, while free from sensationalism. It is what may be termed a- “surprise” play, inasmuch as the final scene is utilised to dear up a mystery which has marked the progress of the story throughout. Miss Mason*®hould shine in this production, the ‘*”al character of which is peculiarly. Ilei . type. On the same bill Johnnie M’ a iner and Edna Murphy appear in a delightful story of regeneration "What Love Will Do.” EVERYBODY’S. “MARRIED LIFE”—A SUPER COMEDY. “Married Life,” starring that popular king of fun, Ben Turpin, will be the attraction at Everybody’s to-night and tomorrow. This comedy is from the Mack Sennett studios, and is a farcical story of the little misunderstandings and differences that are apt to arise in the connubial union. Fron| beginning to end the picture is one long laugh, while the amusing Ben does some of the fuuniest laugh-promoting stunts that have ever been performed before the camera, the same bill is a special attraction in the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The most famous detective stories ever written are those of Sir Conan Doyle, and in producing these stories for the screen the Stoll British Company have made one of the. finest series of features that have ever been produced. The first of these features will head the bill at ■ Everybody’s this week. It is entitled “The Resident Patient.” Eille Norwood in the role of-Sherlock Holmes does not merely play the' part; he makes the famous detective of fiction really live. All the characters made famous by Conan Doyle have been chosen with the greatest care, and each story of the adventures of Holmes on the various cases which he investigated, shows the work of a master criminologist, as imagined by the author. These features are not in serial form, and will be shown as separate attractions at regular intervals. Seats may be reserved at Collier’s.