ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1920, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S. &IG CANADIAN NORTH-WEST FILM. Tense, tight-lipped situations abound in the new World Film drama "The Devil's Trail," opening at Everybody's tonight, featuring Betty Compson and George Larkin in a thrilling story of the Royal Canadian North-west Mounted Police." The drama opens with a murder and abduction tragedy at a lonely police post, and develops thrillingly with the Kelentless pursuit of the miscreants by the red-coated policemen. The drama is a sensational presentation of primeval passions and primitive surroundings, and uiucli of the setting is in the North-west wilds, and vivid glimpses of these hells of vice, the "Honky Tonks," or dancehalls, provide the background for some gripping incidents. The bill includes latest gazette and the big "'Sunshine" comedy "Virtuous Husbands." THE PEOPLE'S. LAST NIGHT OF "THE FLAG LIEUTENANT." The final presentation to-night of the celebrated English beauty actress, Ivy Close, in the fine all-British film, "The Flag Lieutenant," should draw another good house. "The Flag Lieutenant" contains many excellent scenes of the Navy in fighting trim, scenes taken with the permission and assistance of the British Admiralty. Essentially a tale of the Navy, the story is an absorbing one, and cannot fail to appeal to British audiences. The bill includes latest gazette, comedy, and the opening episode of the great stunt serial, "The Great Gamble." To-morrow's new bill presents Wm. Russell in his big romance of the plains, "Shod with Fire," and includes the big "Sunshine" comedy, "Dangerous E y e 3-" » '