ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1922, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “ACROSS THE DEAD LINE.” Frank Mayo achieves a convincing ■haracterisation in the Universal special ttraction “Across the Deadline.” showing for the last time to-night at the People’s. The story concerns a feud between two brothers, one stern and religious, the other wholly evil, a feud that travels its devastating course down the avenue of twenty odd years and through many lives. It divides a town into two parts, each presided over by one of the brothers with his own concept of what is right. Opposite Mayo, Molly Malone gives a captivating performance in the role of the girl who is lost, found, claimed by several persons and finally saved from a third kidnapping iby the young son. This programme showing at the usual prices. EVERYBODY’S. FLORENCE VIDOR IN “THE FAMILY HONOR.” Tn “The Family Honor.” the master touch of King Vidor is evident in every foot of film. The story is the romance of a beautiful Southern girl, wonderfully portrayed by Florence Vidor, wliose parents die, leaving the family impoverished. She struggles to put her brother through college, only to find out he is a waster. Eventually, after a hectic career of vice and gambling, he is accused of murder, when an unexpected circumstance proves his innoence. Although there is tragedy in the story, it is also filled with love and romance and crowned with happiness, and contains a trenchant lesson to weak parents who neglect to exercise control over their children. Admirably produced there are many beauty spots in its five reels, which never fail to grip the attention from first to last. “The Family Honor” screens to-night and tomorrow at Everybody’s and will be supported by the first episode of the 1 new style serial. “Winners of the West,” which deals with historic facts concerning the first of the American trailbreakers and Captain Fremont’s famous 1848 expedition.