ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVEER YBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “NOMADS OF THE NORTH.” Heralded as one of the most rousin'' cinema triumphs of the decade, “Nomads of the North” from. James Oliver Curwood’s famous novel of the far North delighted a big audience at Everybody’s last night. As the title indicates * this picture is a drama of the wild frozen country where civilisation knows but one' law —that of brute strength. It is the story of a girl’s fight for the love of a man against villainy and unscrupulous dealings. Her triumph over these is magnificent and this plot set in the most picturesque of atmosphere gives force to a story that is at once impelling and striking. The leading roles are interpreted by Betty Blythe and Lon Chaney (of “Miracle Man” fame) with a big supporting cast. The bill includes a Larry Semon supercomedy “The Hick,” one of the funniest productions ever seen. Seats may be reserved at Collier’s. To-mbrrow’s change presents a Western story full of Life and Action, “Lahoma,” featuring Peaches Jackson and Louise Burnham.

THE PEOPLE’S. A TOM MIX SUPER PLAY. A horse, a dog, and a man whose nature is like the wolf when cornered, are again the big attractions in the latest° Tom Mix story, “The Night Horsemen,” a Fox production which opens to-night at the People’s. This story is bAsed on the novel “Wild Geese” by Max Brand, and is a sequel to "The Untamed,” in which Mix gave such sterling entertainment not many months ago. Mix again enacts the role of Whistling Dan, a character so wild that the “honk, honk” of the geese flying northward cause him to forget even his wedding day in his desire to play in the wilderness. Love tames. Whistling Dan after many stirring adventures in “The Night Horsemen,” and when he again heats the “honk, honk ’ jof the northward-bound geese he turns j away, for the first time in his life, and I goes* home with Kate Cumberland, the I girl who has loved him and waited for 'him. May Hopkins plays Kate. A big Sunshine ‘comedy and gazettes are also on the bill.