ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1928, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S. ‘MONS" MATINEE TO-DAY. The British made film ■ “Mons” was again responsible for a capacity house at Everybody’s last night, and the enthusiasm with which it was greeted is tribute enough to the picture’s worth. This is all the more significant, for there is no “story” running through “Mons.” It is all war, blood, carnage, realistic encounters, machine fighting and hand-to-hand fighting. Tt is an immensely thrilling picture, and the wonder of it all is that it is historically accurate. One simply cannot see those’ Contemptibles, with the gay Scotch thrown into the balance on many an occasion, without a great thrill of pride. In addition to “Mons" a Universal legal drama, “The Thirteenth Juror,” is shown. This film is taken from the stage play “Counsel for the Defence,” and is interpreted by a specially chosen cast headed by Anna Q. Nilsson'and Francis X. Bushman. The programme shows again to-night at. Everybody's. “Mons” will be shown at ■a special matinee this afternoon at 3.30 p.m. It is seldom a picture of this nature is shown to school children, but “Mons” has a lesson for every young New Zealander —a lesson of loyalty to the King and Empire. Seats for to night may be reserved at Collier’s. THE PEOPLE’S. “GO WEST.” Stampeding farce comedy, sprinkled with pathos —that’s Buster Keaton’s latest picture, “Go West,” which is showing finally at the People’s to-night-. It is the biggest scream the frozen-faced comedian has ever done and sets a new record in elaborate laugh-provoking photoplays. Buster portrays a role ideally suited to his inimitable brand of screen clowning. He is a drifter who encounters all sorts of adventures while touring the country in a boxcar, finally winding up as a cowboy in the great open spaces. The mirthful predicaments that he gets into when ho pilots thousands of cattle through the streets of a big city top the fast and furious comedy. He foils an assorted lot of villains, wins the rancher’s daughter (Kathleen Myers) and ends his wanderings in a blaze of glory and laughs. An excellent programme in support includes a comedy. New Zealand Film and Pathe Gazette. Commencing to-morrow for two nights only is “Millionaires,” Master Pictures’ comedy adapted from the novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The cast includes George Sidney, Louise Fazenda, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr and Helene Costello.

THEATRE ROYAL, WxMTARA. “PRIVATE IZZY MURPHY.” “Private Izzy Murphy,” the Master Picture, released by Master Pictures, to be shown at the Theatre Royal Waitara to-night, stars George Je-ssel, the famous “Jazz Singer” who won such enviable acclaim in New York last year. Featured with Jessel are Patsy Ruth Miller and Vera Gordon. An excellent company is in support, and the Aiming was directed by Lloyd Bacon, son of Frank Bacon, star and author of “Lightnin’.” “Private Izzy Murphy” is the story of Izzy Goldberg, a young delicatessen keeper of New York, and of his dealings with the Irish. For business reasons he decides to change his name to “Murphy,” and goes overseas with an Irish regiment under that-name. The story does not burlesque racial traits, but is a play with that “touch of nature” which “makes the whole world kin ”