ENTERTAINMENTS.
- THE PEOPLE’S. ALICE LAKE IN “THE GREATER CLAIM.” “The mothering instinct is the most basic and deep-rooted in woman, a thing she inherits from aeons upon aeons of time, until it has become the most responsive chord she lives to.” This is • how Alice Lake, Metro’s little star, exj plains the enthusiasm with which she pacts in her latest picture, “The Greater i Claijn.” now showing at the People’s as I the feature attraction. This is a great I picture, adapted from the Izola Forrea- ! ter-Mann Page original story, with a ' plot that brims v. ith surprises, tolling of 1 Mary Smith, a Follies beauty, who weds i “Chuck” Gerard, a wealthy youth. The ’ latter’s father has “Chuck” kidnapped •during the honeymoon and sent to sea. ‘ Mary angrily takes to cabaret life. Then, ’ forced by poverty and the necessity of 1 supporting her child, sue falls in with crooks, who blackmail her father-in-law. With her sudden wave of mother love and rec'onciliatiou comes the climax of a wonderful picture. Gazette, comedy, and “The Diamond Queen” are also on this bill. The big attraction for Saturi day ds “Red Foam,” a Selznick special production, featuring Zena Keefe. EVERRBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “DIAMONDS ADRIFT.” Action, adventure and comedy are, with strange events, love and athletic prowess, blended into an intensely interesting story, “Diamonds Adrift,” concluding to-night, at Everybody’s. Tl o story is peculiarly suited to the style of (Earle Williams, the star, and gives him a type of role with which he has long been associated, while there are several innovations of character which make it entirely different from anything in which (he star haa hitherto appear- I ed. The bill includes gazette, comedy and “’The Invisible Hand.'’ To-morrow’s i change presents a “Broadwest” all-Brd- ; tish production, “The Romance of a Movie Star,” featuring Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1921, Page 3
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