ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1922, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE QUALITY PERFORMERS ■South wood’s Quality Performers, a company which has enjoyed mucn popularity in its New Plymouth season made their final appearance last night in the third programme, “A Carnival of Melody.” The was a large attendance and the audience enjoyed to the full the bright bill of fare which was presented, the variety and quality oi items being quite up to those of previous performances.

EVERYBODY’S A DELIGHTFUL ENGLISH PICTURE. A big attendance is assured at Everybody’s to-night and to-morrow, when the head-liner on a double programme will be the recent big success from the British Film Producers, ’’Laddie.” A slight sentimental story of the. everpopular “mother-love” type, the sheer simplicity of its presentation will touch the heart -strings of even the most easeheardened kine-goer, and although saturated with undiluted sentiment, this element never descends to mawkishness. The old-world village backgrounds are perfectly delightful, while the interiors of the West End mansion have been decorated with exquisite taste. Producers of simple screen stories are prone to be too easily satisfied in the matter of settings, but in this charming picture Master Films have taken care to give us the genuine thing. The hit of the piece is the brilliant character study fof that inimitable actress, Sydney Fairbrother, as Mrs. Carter, a most pathetic and lovable figure. What a marvellous actress she truly te, and we sincerely hope that ’we shall see much more of her, if for no other reason than to show that in Miss Fairbrother we have a screen artiste whose particular character studies surpass mytl ing America has ever sent us. Her .left touches of humor and pathos are remarkable for their naturalness, and the spectator follows the vicissitudes that befall the lovable old widow with genuine concern. The box plans are at Collier’s.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF SHIRLEY MASON. Those who have not seen Shirley Mason in “Ever Since Eve” at the People’s Theatre have misseel some fine eaterUiHiuent. However, will

have a final opportunity to expiate this sin of omission to-night, when the last showing will be given. The picture is unusual in its story, ahd the acting and general presentation are of the best. The bill also presents Johnnie Walker and Edna Murphy in a delightful story of regeneration, “What Love Will Do.” To-morrow’s change presents Bert Lyttel in his latest Metro screen play, “The Man Who.”