ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1922, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF “JOHN SMITH.” Screening for the last time to-night at the People’s is the six-reel Selzniek feature “John Smith,” with Eugene O’Brien in the title role. The story is of unusual interest from beginning to end and O’Brien comes to light with absolutely the best comedy-drama of his career. The first part of the story affords much humor, while the last three reels contain a full complement of mystery and suspense. TOM MIX TO-MORROW. Tom Mix, the most popular star of the screen, enacts the leading role in “Sky High” on to-morrow’s change of programme. An eleven-foot jump across a chasm two thousand feet deep, a sensational slide on a rope down the side of a great precicipe, and a ride on Tony, his wonderful horse, up the Canyon walls, are merely preliminary to a flight in an aeroplane through the Canyon and a leap from the ’plane into the Colorado River below, are some of the feature thrills in “Sky High.”

EVERYBODY’S. “KAZAN” THE WOLF-DOG-TO-NIGHT. Everyone reads many James Oliver Curwood’s stories of the men and women, and animals of the North. “Kazan” is admitted to be the greatest the famous author has ever written. It is an enchanting and powerful picture of the part a great dog played in a love story of the North. As a book it gripped, amazed and delighted; and now that it has been brought to the screen its charm and thrill are intensified even beyond the strength of the written word. “Kazan,” half-wolf, half-dog, becomes a real character, almost human in translation to the screen. Joan, the girl, brought from civilisation into the land of the forgotten; Thorpe, the avenger who turned lover; McCready, the brute; Humpy Joe, whose music charmed even the fighting instinct of the “killer-dogs”—all live before you as vividly as they lived in the author’s mind. The presentation of “Kazan” at Everybody's to-night will afford an opportunity of seeing and enjoying a masterpiece of fiction for the photodramatisation of which a million readers have clamored. The management announce that this big special feature will he shown at usual prices. Seats may bt reserved at Collier’s for either night.