ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. HOOT GIBSON TN “TRIMMED.”’ Ed (Hoot) Gibson gives a speedy punchy performance in "Trimmed,” his latest Universal production, which was shown for the first time here last night at the People’s Theatre. Gibson has that elusive thing known among screen artists as “personality.” From the first glim'‘-5e ef his smiling countenance as a returning soldier in “Trimmed,” until the final fade-out in a pretty love scene with little Patsy Ruth Miller this Universal star has theatre-goers cheering for ’him and laughing with him. “Trimmed” is a real punchy picture and the smiling Hoot provides any amount of thrills and action. The supporting films include Comedy and Topicals. The final screening is announced for to-night.

EVERYBODY’S. NAZIMOVA AND HAROLD LLOYD TO-NIGHT. “The sound of a door is heard from below” marked the final revolt in Ibsen’s great play ”A Doll’s House,” of the wife who is determined to be a doll no longer. The screen version made by the United Artists screens at Everybody’s to-night and to-morrow. Nazimova, the greatest of all screen emotional actresses heads the flawless cast, and her performance is wonderful. Mention must also be made of the fine settings and artistically perfect surroundings. The story concerns Nora Helmer who finds that the whole of her outlook on life has been false, that her husband regards her as a toy for his idle hours, and that her action in risking a criminal act for his sake is deplorable. The gradual awakening is attended with profound consequences, and ends with a dramatic suddenness. Harold Lloyd also appears on this programme in another comedy convulsion “Haunted Spooks,” a picture which provides one hundred laughs. Seats may be reserved at Collier’s. Admission prices are as usual.

JEAN GERARDY CONCERTS. NEXT SATURDAY AND MONDAY. The announcement that M. Gerardy, the world’s greatest violoncellist, is to give two concerts in the Empire Theatre New Plymouth 'Saturday, and Monday next has evoked widespread interest, particularly in view of the length of , time that has elapsed since any great , European musical celebrity has appeared here. Twenty-two years ago Gerardy, when a youth of twenty, ravished the ears of music lovers throughout Australasia with his extraordinary intensity and depth of tone, and astonished alf who heard him by his almost incredible command of his instrument. He v. as even then a virtuoso of the highest order—Had been, in fact, since his early ’teens. At the age of fifteen he was considered to have -reached the extreme limit of violoncello technique. Since then, however, composers the world over have vied with each other in exploiting the possibilities of this noble instrument as discovered by the first great ’cellist of the twentieth century, Jean Gerardy. Nearly all the greatest of modern ’cello compositions have been written expressly for the great Belgian, nd a number of them are being played ■:ow by Gerardy for the first time in , these countries. Associated with the famous ’cellist is an American pianist of note, Mr. George Stewart McManus, an exponent of the Godowsky school of ' niano playing. Mr. McManus’s nt the Carnegie Hall, New York, early this year, attracted a good deal of attention. The New York Herald ac- , claimed him as a player “with vigour, sweep and breadth of tone. His Brahms interpretations were excellent.” The company is completed by Miss Essie Ackiand, the young Australian contralto. whose remarkably deep and colourful voice created something of a sensation at the Gerardy concerts in Sydney and Melbourne. The box plan will be opened this morning at Collier’s. “FIND ME A WIFE.” The comedy. ‘Find Me a Wife.” was played to a fair house at the Empire Theatre last night, the highly-amusing episodes in which the three-act piece abounds causing many laughs. Miss Kate Howarde sustained the principal role, being well supported by bright comedians. The plot lunges on the embarrassment caused a young man who, for financial reasons, deludes his uncle into the belief that he is a married man with several of a family. When the uncle decides to pay his nephew a visit, the latter is caught in a dilemma ns to how be is to sustain this delusion. This he manages to do at very short notice, but after many amusing interludes. the truth leaks out. However, complications are at last straightened out and the curtain falls on a happy and reconciled household.