ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVEKYBODY’S. “WIVES AND OTHER WIVES.” ‘•'Wives and Other Wives,” starring Mary Miles Minter, a delightful comedydrama, is the leading attraction on the ■bill at Everybody’s theatre to-night. This picture is a real achievement in the art of screen comedy-drama, and offers Miss Minter the best opportunities of her screen career. It is one of her typical stories, clean, wholesome and delightful. The plot of the story concerns the efforts of a young bride to make her husband jealous. Her efforts in bringing about this state of affairs lead to unexpected developments, not the least stirring of which is when the young husband comes home to patch up the quarrel with his wife and finds another man, apparently intoxicated, draped across his wife’s bed. “Wives and Other Wives” is a play that will be appreciated ■by all who see it. It is a brilliant production in every way. .“THE WAIKIKI HAWAIIAN'S ” EMPIRE THEATRE, TUESDAY. A novel and brilliant combination of entertainers • is visiting New Plymouth next Tuesday and Wednesday, namely, the “Famous Waikiki Hawaiians,” who have 'been appearing with wonderful success in Auckland and the big towns on the East Coast. The company consist of eleven Hawaiian musicians, singers and dancers, and provide one of the most pleasing evening’s entertainments .yet offered to Dominion play-goers. The star of the company is Mr. Koeke Greig, said to be a remarkable performer on the steel guitar, and his popularity is closely challenged by Miss T. Tilliokatina, a past mistress of the weird and beautiful “Luan Hula” dance, which this charming little lady performs in native costume. There are eleven members, all told, in the company, and each and every one is a capable and gifted performer. The special coloured lighting effects add greatly to the stage effects, and help to make realistic the Hawaiian village scenes, also the “Ukelele,” always a charming instrument, is wonderfully effective in the hands of this gifted troupe, and will delight local theatregoers. Box plans for the Hawaiians open at Collier’s on Friday morning.

THE PEOPLE’S. “THE DEVIL WITHIN.” The screen at the People’s Theatre will reflect for the last time to-night the gripping personality of Dustin Farnum in his Fox play “The Devil Within.” It is not an occasion to be slighted, for the popular screen star is at his very best in this unusual story of the sea. Tt is a sledge-hammer tale of a whisky-crazed sea captain and his ultimate redemption from brutality. The story comes from the pen of George Allen England, and the supporting company is headed by Virginia Valli. A realistic special production, “The Furnace,” featuring Agnes Ayres, Theodore Roberts and Milton Sifts, will be screened to-morrow night. When two people marry without love —then, life is like a furnace. Instead of a sacrament, it becomes a sacrilege or a sacrifice. Jealousy, hatred, revenge, feeds its flames until it either destroys or purifies. The great William D. Taylor production of “The Furnace” is one of the most tremendous presentations of this question yet conceived on the screen. You will be profoundly moved by the struggle of the people in “The Furnace” for happiness and love. STRELLA AMATEURS. “THE DRESS REHEARSAL.” The booking for the play “The Dress Rehearsal” opens at Collier’s to-day, and as the tickets are selling rapidly, those who wish to get good seats should ibookj early. The Strella Amateurs are giving half their proceeds to the War Memorial Fund, and trust that the public of New Plymouth will support them well when they make their debut at the Workers’ Social Hall on Tuesday night.