THE PICTURE WORLD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16462, 14 June 1919, Page 6

THE PICTURE WORLD.

THE PEOPLE’S. To-night's attraction at the People’s presents the wonderful Ark-raft kiddies along with the groat athlete, Douglas Fairbanks, in the big sensation, “Air. Fixit.” Every scene in “Air. Fix it” contains a delightful thrill. There is a remarkable slum scene in which Fairbanks rescues a girl from a crowd of gangsters, after a desperate battle, and goes down the side of a house on a clothesline. When he is headed off in the street he utilises a swaying electric banner to gain the other side of the street, and swings himself to the ground from window to window. ‘The Eagle’s Eye,” Burton Holmes, and latest gazette are also on the bill. FEDORA—TUESDAY. The big attraction for Tuesday will be “Fedora,” the powerful French play made immortal on the stage by Sarah Bernhardt. The second chapter of the “Railroad Raider-,” Comedy, and Gazette, are also included on Tuesday’s big bill. . ’ EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “THE CRISIS.” o The attraction at Everybody’s this evening is a big feature, “The Crisis, an adaptation of Winston Churchills famous book of the same name. It is a vivid, daring, human photo-play of a great subject, an achievement such as one rarely secs. It is one of those rare pictures that givo a decided prestige to the motion picture. To-night will be the final screening. On Monday Alice Brady stars in a Select drama, “The Better Half.” EAIPIRE THEATRE. ‘‘THE MAN WHO STAYED AT • HOME,” The crowded state of the Empire Theatre last night testified to the I act that sensational drama, even in pictorial form, is appreciated by the public of New Plymouth. The hearty applause which greeted the main points of the story ot “The Man Wlio Stayed at Homo” proved that those people who were fortunate enough to secure seats enjoyed the picture to the- full. Britain’s bulwarks, including the New Zealand and the North Sea fleet, together with submarine and destroyer fleets, were realistically shown, in conjunction with the receiving hy the German spy of the message relating _to the departure of the fleet escorting transports. The main points of the drama were' brought out effectively, the women munition workers, artillery and cavalry reinforcements, the discovery of the" wireless plant, the shooting of the carrier pigeon, the denouncement of the German spy, and the sensational climax of the sinking by British destroyers of an enemy submarine being most graphically shown. To-night will he the final screening occasion.