ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE DEMPSEY - CARPENTIER FIGHT. -The Battle of the Modern Gladiators” fitly describes the historic contest for the championship of the world, which took place on July 2 last, at Jersey City, between the American champion, Jack Dempsey, and Georges Carpentier, the Idol of France. Dempsey is a typical American pugilist, with eyes set close together, high cheek-bones and a naturally surly expression, surmounting a towering mass of brawn and worthy of a gladiator. His opponent, lighter, graceful, with a long, sloping back, emphasised by a waist, and withal a frank, open countenance, in which lurks no evil, has been called “The Gentleman of the Ring.” It is no wonder that wherever the fight pictures have been shown, with only the reflections of the two men to look upon, the one has been received with mixed boos, hisses and faint applause, while the smiling Frenchman gets a rousing ovation as he metaphorically shakes hands with his 100,000 New Jersey audience, for his is a personality that wins all hearts. The story of the great fight is depicted in graphic form in the five reels which comprise the offi cial record. These highly successful pictures, filmed by twenty-two camera men, will be shown at the Empire Theatre on Monday and Tuesday, and the management confidently expects that the record-breaking achievements of this film in other parts of the Dominion will be equalled, if not excelled, in New Plymouth. There is, of course, nothing in the film in the least degree offensive to the most delicate' susceptibilities. It is a picture that makes a tremendous appeal to the sporting instincts of men and women alike. The box plan is now open at Collier’s.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF BERT LYTELL. Being a barefoot man has none of the glamor that the poet wove about the ‘barefoot -boy with, coat of tan,” according to Bert Lytell, whose latest picture, “The Man Who,” a Maxwell Karger production for Metro, concludes to-night at the People’s. Mr. Lytell as the star in this srceen adaptation of Lloyd Osborne’s story in the Saturday Evening Past, appears in a number of scenes in his bare feet, but unshod. In the story, the hero, in an attempt to become a famous Character, decides to start clubs to fight the high price of shoes by going barefooted. The bill includes gazette, comedy and “The Fatal Sign.” To-morrow’s change presents the famous Selznick “figleaf” comedy “The Dangerous Paradise,” featuring Louise Hull'. The matinee to-morrow commences at 2 p.m. EVERYBODY’S. “PASSION’S PLAYGROUND.” Katherine MacDonald in “Passion’s Playground,” opening at Everybody’s tonight. has her greatest role. Out of the sanctity of a Scottish convent, Mary Grant, through whose veins, flowed the blood of her gambler father, is thrown into the glamor of Monte Carlo’s famous society. This i£ the central thought of Katherine McDonald’s latest production “Passion’s Playground,” adapted from the world-famous story “The Gilests of Hercules,” by O. N. and A. M. Williamson. It is in. the strange meeting with the mysterious runaway girl that the Williamsons provided a climax for their great plot. Pledged to secrecy, Mary Grant takes upon herself the disgrace that accompanied the strange fate of the “missing girl.” “Lure of the Circus,” gazette and comedy are also on the bill. The matinee to-morrow commences at 2 p.m.