ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. *WAY DOWN EAST, 5 ? The D. W’. Griffith photo-play "Way Down East,” opened to a packed house at Everybody’s last night. From a scenic point of view it is decidedly worth while, particularly the portion that shows a great icebound river when the thaw commences. A great frozen sheet is turned to masses of moving ice, which rush impetuously towards a great cataract. Upon one of them is a girl, and her rescue is thrilling. The story is just one of plain everyday people showing how Anna Moore (Lillian Gish) flees from poverty in a village to comparatively luxurious dependence upon, rich city relatives. Her innocence makes her an easy prey to the seducer. A mock marriage is followed by desertion. Anna flees to a little country town to hide her shame. Her dhild is born and dies, and her landlady drives her into the street because she is husbandless. In ignorance of her history, a puritanical old squire admits her to his household. His son falls in love with her, but at the time of the great ice-break in the neighboring river her story comes out, and sh* is bidden to go—during a snowstorm. At this point the picture really takes hold, and it grips hard through a wonderful storm scene, through the scene on the ice, and up to the point where reconciliations take place. The picture fully keeps up to the high reputation which has preceded it. There will bs a matinee screening at 2 p.m. this afternoon and the night session will commence at 7.45. Box plans are at Collier’s.

THE PEOPLE’S. • DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.” “Dollar for Dollar,” starring Frank Keenan at the People’s I theatre to-night for one night only is one of the big Pathe attractions of the season. The story is adapted, to the screen from the novel by Ethel Wats Mumford and tells of the adventures of a soulless financier who is blackmailed by . a pharming widow. This woman played a strange game for a woman in society; she was a discoverer and seller of family secrets, a. rattler of family skeletons. But what a business to be discovered in by one you love. This is one of the amazing climaxes in this thrilling drama of mystery and high finance. This picture is certainly the best Keenan production and is guaranteed to please all who can appreciate drama with a flavoring of mystery and romance. Included in' this programme are Topicals and a two-reel Sennett comedy “Made in the Kitchen.” The prices remain as usual, viz., D.C. la 6d, stalls Is. EMPIRE THEATRE. “THE SNAPSHOTS” OF 1922. VISIT OF MR. LEONARD NELSON. It is with gidat pleasure we announce the visit of Mr. Leonard Nelson and Mr. Geo. Sharratt’s “Snapshots” of 1922, which open a three night season at the Empire next Saturday. There is no more popular comedian in Australasia than the renowned Leonard, and the fact that his name is at the head of a coterie of artists, is sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the entertainment. The supporting artistes include some excellent entertainers, among whom we may mention Hazel Fuller, a young New Zealand soprano, who left New Zeaand for Australia some three years ago. This talented artiste on arrival in Australia was immediately received by Mr. Verfirugghen, the renowned conductor of the New South Wales Conservatorium Orchestra, with which she appeareu with phenomenal success. Then there is Aneurin Morris, the Welsh tenor, who is acclaimed by the Triad, as the best lyric tenor ever heard in Sydney, also Os. Wenban, well remembered as the baritone with J. C. Williamson’s “Bing Boys” Co., and Walter Searle, the clever young English monologuist and light comedian. Annette Lang is the danseuse of the company. Her dancing is a revelation of the terpsichorean art, Miss Rose Fitzgerald has a. wonderful contralto voice, and sings songs that are bound to please all. Miss Beatrice Wenban, who is the character comedian with The “Snapshots” has that happy knack of creating laughter—she has had several year’s experience with J. C. Williamson’s companies. Then there is Miss Aileen Clifford, probably the most accomplished lady entertainer at the piano New Zealand has ever heard. The box plans open at Collier’s this morning.