ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1920, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURES. The varied programme of pictures and vaudeville presented at Everybody's last evening met with a most favorable reception. Flaneur and hiu wonderfully intelligent dogs, Mop and Prince, provided a delightfully clever and humorous turn entitled "A Day in Dogtown." Flaneur steers clear of feats which, however clever, have no novelty, and uses his own and the dogs' intelligence to provide an act in which humor is the most prominent. In numerous little stunts one dog performs the clever work and the other intentionally spoils his work. The whole act is a remarkable illustration of animal training, and reflects credit on Flaneur and his pets. The picture programme is headed by a fine Vitagraph six-reel feature ''Slaves of Pride," with the lovely Alice Joyce in the leading part. There are also a number of interesting supporting pictures. The complete programme screens again to-night for the last time. To-morrow and Thursday there will be a complete change of pictures, and Flaneur and his dogs will appear again both, nights. On Thursday afternoon there will be a special matinee arranged for the kiddies to see the remarkable dog act. Tin's PEOPLE'S. WM. FARNUM IN '-THE LAST OF THE DUANES." William Farnum in "The Last of the Dunnes" will be seen at the People's Theatre to-night. This is the picturisation of another great Zane Grey story produced by William Fox and directed by ./. Gordon Edwards. ''Only a few months have passed since then—when I had my memorable sojourn with you—and yet in that short time Russell awl Moore have crossed thj Divide—like Rangers!" The last two words of this tribute by Zane <irey to "Captain John Hughes and his Texas Rangers" epitomizes the body of men who have contributed the most picturesque page in the history of Texas—and one of the mosyi? tragic in the history of the United States. "Like Rangers!"—that said it all. Never has there been a more devoted law organisation than the Texas Rangers, whose record stands a lasting document of fidelity to duty and of fearlessness in the face of frightful odds. Not even the wonderful achievements of the Canadian North-west Mounted Police —who never have been known to drop a trail though it led over thousands of miles of the frozen wastes on the Arctic circle, or round the world—outrank those of the Texas Rangers, who. as Zane Grey so aptly remarked, "made the Lone Star State habitable." And now, happily, also as Zane flrey predicted, the Rangers are "coming into their own." Through the picturisation by William Fox of the famous Grey novels the people of to-day are being permitted to glimpse the strißsfnl, embattled life led by the men who "made the Lone Star State habitable." The greatest of all, "The Last of the Dunnes," has just been filmed with William Farnum in the role of "Buck" Dunne.