ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1922, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S “THE -FOUR HORSEMEN.” The following is from a recent issue of the Dominion: — The Metro Picture Corporation’s pro- I duct ion of Vicente Blasoo Ibanez ’s f. great novel, “The Four Horsemen of 1 the Apocalypse” attracted packed J, houses at the Artcraft and Paramount : Theatres last night, and the unanimous 1 verdict was that "it was one ot the greatest and best-acted pictures that has been seen in Wellington for years. , The extended season for this big feature was undoubtedly called for. The story, which opens in the Argentine, and ends in France, depicts ail the horrors of war with a stern reality. One sees, underneath romance, which is very skilfully woven into it, the working of all the passions which go towards wrenching nations apart and let loose those four things symbolised by the Four Horsemen in the Revelations of St. John, namely. Conquest, War, Famine. and Death. Though it concerns itself with but one war, it is in essence: a great indictment of war of all the ages. The east is an “all star” one, and it would be difficult to single out one of more than twenty for special mention. By means of a uniform excellence of acting a story which might very well become irksome passes before one in a way that holds one enthralled at t'he nobleness and the baseness of human nature brought up under different ideals. “The Four Horsemen” will be screened at Everybody’s on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Seats for either night can now be reserved at Collier’s. “THE SONG OF LIFE.” Romance and pathos, happiness and misunderstanding, love and pathos—these are some of the vital elements which are weaved into what is described as a great human drama of the kitchen in “The Song of Life” John AL Stahl s special feature production, the First National Attraction at Everybody’s at both sessions to-day. “The 'Song of Life” is interpreted by a cast of allstar calibre, headed by Gaston Glass, Grace Rarmond, 'Georgia Waodthorpe and Richard Headwiek. and includes such well known players as Arthur Stuart Hull. Wedgwood Nowell and Edward Peil. The central character of the plot is an elderly woman, who, years after she had left her own home k because of thankless household drud- ’ oery, finds her son’s wife face to face

with a similar predicament. Having profited by her own mistake, she figures in a gripping denouncement which restores happiness and understanding in the home. The supports include the eighth -episode of “Winners of the West.”

THE PEOPLE’S. AIATINEE TGDAY AT 2 P.M. The six-reel S'elznick comedy-drama “The Spenders” which screens to-day and to-night at the People’s with an all star cast can be considered a great photoplay of society life as New York knows it, and those who live, move and have their being as the ultra-fashion-able coterie are the actors. Briefly, the story tells'how one Uncle Peter Bines, an old Westerner, and his grandson, who is more than mildly interested in the family fortune, engage in a dispute, Percival upholding the metropolis with all its apparent advantages, and the older man fighting strenuously in defence of the wide and -open West. T'he story sweeps from the glory and majesty of the Rocky Mountains to the wealth and fashion of a New York drawing-room! You will see .the inner-workings of a deep-laid plan to discredit a clean-living youngster—the hectic frenzy of Wall Street during a bear raid on “the market” —the mad revelry in a New York show-girl’s apartment and a police raid when that same revelry is at its height. Episode three of “The Blue Fox” is also included with this programme.