ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1450, 15 January 1924, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT. “ MIGHTY LAK’ A ROSE.” In the slums of New York there are certain dark and mysterious regions, notorious for the part they have played in the criminal records of the city. These regions have been studied and carefully reproduced by Mr Carewe, with their stores, their trucks, their pawnshops and hurdygurdies and children, for the production of “Mighty Lak a Rose,” the First National picture to be screened at the Empire Theatre on Wednesday night. Mr Carewe erected in the studio a reproduction of the famous Cherry Hill district, near Brooklyn Bridge, the notorious “Bandits Roost” and “Murderers’ Alley.” THURSDAY NIGHT. “PRISONERS OF LOVE.” A story with a lesson and a moral to all young women of to-day is told in “Prisoners of Love,” wtih Betty Compson, at the Empire Theatre on Thursday night. She is seen as a girl possessed of a dangerous remarkable beauty, a beauty which leads men to take an interest in her that brings into her life grim tragedy. As the cultured girl who finds that her father is buying the silence of a former mistress and forced herself to expose herself to the elements of an unsympathetic world, Miss Compson is seen in a role that calls forth an exhibition of the remarkable talent that asserted itself in “The Miracle Man.” The picture is produced on a big scale, and is one of the greatest problem stories of the present dramatic season.