ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A FINE GOLD ROOSTER FEA CUKE. "WHEN" LOVE WAS BLIND." Almost flawless is the setting of "When Love wa.i Blind," the powerful .rathe Gold Rooster play screened at the Empire last night, Florence La Badie is the star, and she is wonderfully dainty, and acts with great appeal in the emotional scenes of the play. She portrays a. girl who goes blind, and contracts an aliiance wita a young artist whom she loves. She expects, of course, that he will marry her, and trusts him completely. Then her sight is restored, and the first thing she sees is her lover parently embracing one of the servants. Heartbroken, she goes away, and it is not until many dark days have passed that her lover and she are reunited. The scenes of artistic Bohemian life are faithfully pictured, and the Sitting is lavish in the extreme. The Jsst scene is exceedingly dramatic, the Heroine's dreadful fear proving to be absolutely without foundation. The whole drama is a credit to the Pathe studios, and is one of the best they have ever put out. The Mutual feature "The Diamond Runners" went astray in transit, aDd was replaced by "Red Spider," a Trans-At-lantic star drama.

"WAR AS IT REALLY IS." A REMARKABLE WAR FILM TO BE SHOWN AT THE EMPIRE NEXT MONDAY. As official photographer to the Frencii armies, Captain Donald Thompson, who took the wonderful war pictures to be shown at the Empire Theatre next Monday and Tuesday, had special opportunities of filming unique events. Many of the scenes are taken only a. few "feet from the German lines. Shells can be seen bursting only a short distance from the camera, blotting the view out with smoke. The famous "curtain of fire" can be seen driving thousands of Germans towardß the French trenches to be made prisoners. The armored train views are quite new, and are a revelation of the range of devices and mechanism employed in the titanic struggle. The heaviest artillery struggle of Verdun is shown in vivid detail, with great guns of the Allies (the largest in the world) in action, and armored canal boats at work. Supporting the big war film will be the latest Douglas Fairbanks comedy "the mystery of the Leaping Fish" "War as It Really Is" will be screened for two nights with a special (matinee on Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m.

JUNE CAPRICE AT EVERYBODY'S TO-NIGHT IN "THE MISCHIEF ! MAKER. 1 June Caprice, tho delightful young Fox star appears to-night in a' rollicking comedy-drama "The Mischief Maker" at Everybory's. June Caprice appears in the part of Eflie Marehand. wiio is so mischievious and full of deviltry that her aunt decided to send her away to a boarding school. Her surprise i 3 complete a few weeks later when Ellie returns with a husband. Aunty is naturally upset until she discovers that the man Eifiej has married is the very one slio had selected as a husband many, many years before, when EfTie was too young to rebel. Effie's stay is not long at the school, but she manages to get quite a lot- of things on the move bpfore she is requested by the head mistress to "move out" herself. June Caprice is just delightful in this character and her smile ripples gaily through the five reels of the picture. The screening nights are to-night and to-morrow. COMING SATURDAY. On Saturday- the famous World Film super-feature "The Dancer's Peril" will commence a, local season at Everybody's.