ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVIERYBODY’S. MARGUERITE CLARKE IN “SCRAMBLED WIVES.” A peppy little story about a fla-pper who was married and unmarried all in. the same breath, and who had a terri/ble time keping her terrible paat from the right man when he finally came along, is “Scrambled Wives,” starring pretty little Marguerite Clark, at Everybody’s to-night. This production marks Mias Clark’s return to the screen after an absence of a year following her marriage. Marguerite Clark has the stellar role of Mary Lucille Smith, a capricious young lady, who, aa a result of an innocent boarding school escapade, is rushed into marriage with a young chap whom she does not really love. Mary’s father promptly interferes and the marriage is annulled. She is packed off to Europe to forget her indiscretion. Returning, she meets a young fellow with, whom a ca>se of “love at first sight” at once develops. The complications which result from Mary’s efforts to hide “a terrible past” make this one of the most amusing and delightful photoplays of a decade. There is a “Snooky” comedy in support. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “TRUANT HUSBANDS.” A strong undercurrent of humor runs through the Selznick production, “Truant Husbands,” which screens at the Peoples for the last time to-night. The picture is described as a sparkling comedy of marital doings. It is quite a tragic comedy class of film with a narrative running along unusual lines, containing quite an unusual amount of good wholesome humor that will prove acceptable to any patron. Mahlon Hamilton, Betty Blythe and Francelia Billington are the principals in this exceptionally fine comedy-drama. Episode 8 of “Thunderbolt Jack” also shows finally to-night.

EMPIRE THEATRE. “THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL” TO-MORROW. Cecil B. de Mrlle’s artistic production, “The Affairs of Anatol,” will commence a local season of three nights at the Empire to-morrow. “Anatol,” played by Wallace Reid, is a self-constituted. Knight Errant rescuer of the frail sex, which habit gets him into quite a tangle of matrimonial troubles. Following the first little “tiff,” Gmr? is introduced the element of indiscretion in Anatol’s dealings with Emilie Dixon, an old-time friend of Anatol’s schooldays. Instead of throwing away, at Anatol’s suggestion, certain jewellery acquired by her during her questionable relations with a society blackguard named Bronson, Emilie prefers to retain this loot, and rather kicks over the traces at Anatol’s attempted reformation. Of course the wife discovers the friendship, and there is the consequent domestic “flare up” of a perfectly good little wife. Theh follows the couples’ retirement to the country, where they rashly conclude that he may be free from the wiles of wicked and alluring femininity. Just how rash the conclusion was, of course, the picture goes on to show. Anatol is unable to drop the role of self-constituted Knight Errant rescuer of the frail sex. Many complications ensue, and the climax appears to he reached in that dramatic scene where Anatol’s wife hands back her wedding ring. However, the story runs a little further to show an ultimate reconciliation. The production promises to promote heavy booking, and to this end the management advise that seats can be booked at Collier’s.