ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 22

ENTERTAINMENTS

EVERYBODY’S.

BIG MATINEE TO-DAY 2 P.M.

The wonderful programme now showing at Everybody’s nightly sessions will be presented at a big matinee performance this afternoon at 2 o’clock. In addition to this a further thrilling instalment of events in “Tarzan the Mighty” (Lost in the Jungle) will be shown. A further issue of “animal cards” will also be made. “Two Red Roses,” a fine European production, and “Quinneys,” an outstanding British film, will be finally presented at Everybody’s to-night. “Two Red Roses,” starring Liane Ilaid, La Jana and Harry Halm, is an entrancing story based on a huge song success. Liane Haid gives a remarkable performance oi the varying moods of a little florist loved by two men, one a rich young man, who gives up all for her, the other a young composer. Alma Taylor and Harry Longden play the leads in the British film “Quinneys,” based on Horace Annesley Vacheli’s famous novel and play. It is a delightful romance woven around the professional and domestic career of a kindly, quixotic dealer in antiques. There is a British Gazette to open, and Everybody’s orchestra accompany the programme with appropriate music under the conductorshin of Mr. Chas. H. Fox.

A two-star programme headed by the motion picture production of Barry Bonners’ world-famous play “The Patsy,” which was recently played upon the stage of the New Plymouth Opera House by a J. C. Williamson company, will commence a three-night season al Everybody’s Theatre next Monday. Marion Davis appears in the title role and is capably supported by Marie Dressier, Lawrence Grey and Jane Winton. The other attraction is “It Can be Done,” starring Glenn Tryon. It is a hilarious storv of a “worm that turned.”

THE PEOPLE’S.

MONSTER MATINEE TO-DAY 2 P.M.

The management of the People’s Theatre have selected a programme to be screened at .the matinee this afternoon that will give the kiddies the treat of their lives. The main attraction will be

“Wyoming,” starring Tim McCoy and Dorothy Sebastian. It is a thrilling tale of the days when the Red Indians roamed the plains of America, and is full of excitement from beginning to end. The supporting programme is headed by chapter nine of “Tarzan the Mighty” (Lost in the Jungle), a funny two-reel comedy, Interest and Fox News reel. Another issue of “animal cards” •will take place to-day. Showing at the People’s to-night and Monday night is the William Fox .attraction “Bare Knees,” featuring Virginia Lee Corbin, with Forrest Stanley, Donald Keith, Jane Winton, Johnnie Walker and Maude Fulton. It would take more space than allotted here to give the picture in detail; suffice to say the story shows that girls now. are not a bit different than they have always been. The picture is handled in a light comedy vein for the early part and then given a dramatic angle and a smashing, thrilling climax. The sight of the girls baseball team is an ample eyeful for anyone and there are plenty of other things to enjoy. The supporting programme includes a funny two-reel comedy (“Hotey Totey”), Interest, Fox News and “Tarzan the Mighty,” episode nine.

OPERA HOUSE.

“FLESH AND THE DEVIL.”

“Flesh and the Devil,” a Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer special attraction that had its initial screening in New Plymouth at the Opera House last night, is one of the most sensational pictures ever filmed. It is the story of a European matrimonial tangle, the same woman being loved by two men, one of whom she marries, unknown to the other, , until the discovery creates a dramatic struggle between love and. honour. Greta Garbo, Swedish actress, and most talked-or woman on the screen, plays the wife, Felicitas; Lars Hanson plays the part of the injured husband; and John Gilbert, virile and dashing, plays opposite Greta Garbo as Leo Von Harden, the husband s childhood friend. This powerful story is taken from the novel, “The Undying Past,” by Herman Sudermann. It deals with the social conditions of an aristocratic circle in Europe in the restless days preceding the Great War. It is a startling exposure of the triumph of primordial instincts even amongst cultured and sheltered human beings. The. intensity of the drama in the story, especially toward the end, when Leo belatedly discovers the soullessness of gelicitas beneath the mask of her amazing beauty, has rarely been seen before in motion pictures. Amongst a strong caSv of supporting players, George Fawcett is worthy of more than passing mention. He has a powerful role as Pastor Voss The supporting programme includes MG.M. News N.Z. scenic (sword-fishing) and “Felix Ducks his Duty” (cartoon). The Opera House orchestra rendered a hi"h-class programme of music. This fine entertainment will be finally repeated tft-JUght. Box plan arrangements are advertised.

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT ONLY. “FAZIL.”

Glamorous scenes on the waters of Venice, in Parisian ballrooms and under Eastern skies, in Arabian palaces and harems, comprise the sweeping background of “Fazil,” Fox Films production which opened last night at the Opera House. Charles Farrell and Greta Nissen are the featured players. It is a colourful romance of an Arabian Prince and a beautiful French girl, and the love scenes between the bronzed man of the desert and the pale Parisian blond are effectively acted. _ There are many eyefilling scenes, particularly the ballroom scene, the scene in the Prince s harem, the Venetian scenes and the scenes in tho Prince’s palace. Also, there are many moments of _ genuine thrill, among them the scene in which the French girl escapes from the Prince’s palace. Charles Farrell is handsome in his rich Arabian trappings, while Miss Nissen has never seemed more beautiful or more gorgeously gowned. The two made an excellent pair and their love scenes together are vividly realistic. The picture ends its engagement at the Opera House to-night. “Fazil” has been recommended by the censor as more suitable for adult audiences.