ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE PEOPLE’S. “THROUGH THE STORM.” The feature attraction at the People’s or. Saturday was “Through the Storm.” This Playgoers’ production depicts a powerful drama in which a girl’s heart and soul are tossed in life’s storm. But after the storm comes the rainbow, and her happiness she found all the more precious for the troubles she had successfully conquered. “Through the Storm” is a spectacular and dramatic film play featuring Edith Stockton and Louis Kimball. The supporting programme is exceptionally good. The programme screens again to-night. Admission prices are 9d and Is 3d. Hoot Gibson, the inimitable Western screen humorist of “The Gentleman from America,” “Kindled Courage” and other successes, will be seen at the People’s Theatre next Wednesday (Race Night) in the starring role of a rollicking comedy drama of the old West, “Dead Game.” “Dead Game” is a story of a man who knew a good deal about fighting, riding and being a he-man in general, but nothing dt all about women. To him a woman was the “big problem.” It’s a great picture for a race night attraction.

EVERYBODY’S. MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2.30. Richard Birthelmess in “Fury” will be screened this afternoon and again on Wednesday night at Everybody’s. “'Fury” is a picture made before the mast. The story opens with rolling decks and full sails, and shows the iron rule of “Dog” Leyton, the sea captain, whose life had been soured by the ruin of his wife through the falseness of his friend. The rule of the ship is “fight it out,” and there is no appeal from the ordeal in the event of any dispute. Boy Leyton, the r.kipper’s son, is of finer fibre than his father, who is determined to “lick the woman out of him.” Richard. Barthlemess, as boy, succeeds admirably in his part of the man-boy, whose life problems are thrust on him in a heap. Much of the picture was taken at sea On a picturesque old schooner oil the Maine coast. / These ocean scenes are said to constitute some of the most striking bits of marine photography ever taken for any photoplay. Dorothy Gish heads the supporting cast. The box -plans are at Collier’s. EMPIRE THEATRE. “ROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES.” Those who wish to spend eighty minutes of genuine and lasting pleasure, combined with the best of all possible means of seeing many lands and many people, should not miss “Round the World in 80 Minutes,” showing at the Empire Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Starting from Wellington, the audience cross the Pacific, pass through the Panama, visit Newport and New York, see the sights of Niagara Falls, cross the Atlantic to London, fly by aeroplane to Paris, spend sunny afternoons in the boulevards, inspect the exquisite architectural triumphs of French genius, meet with French people in their cafes, cross the border into Germany, note the different style of architecture and type of people there, visit Italian cities, touch at Gibraltar, mix with all sorts and conditions of men at Port Said, steam down the Suez Canal, spend a day in Colombo, and hit the trail again for Auckland via the main ports of Australia, a flight over Auckland finishing the greatest world tour ever presented on a motion picture screen. Admission prices are advertised, viz., circle Is 6d, stalls Is, children half-price.