ENTERTAINMENTS

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1641, 14 May 1925, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-NIGHT.

"THE FIRE PATROL."

Love makes the world go round—but even the world will stop its dizzy careening for a breathless moment to gaze at the love that creates it. For love can be so desperate, so unthinking, so much more powerful than the world and all the twinkling planets. This is the love that motivates "The Fire Patrol," to be shown at the Empire Theatre to-night. Just a woman —cuddling in her hungry arms the) limp coat of her man, but you can see through her eyes the stalwart shoulders that fit within it, feel the throbbing heart that she presses to her own. It is such a little gesture, but, as given to the screen by Helen Jerome Eddy in this picture, it means a whole life of yearning.; Her performance in "The Fire Patrol" is one of a number of splendid portrayals presented' by Madge Bellamy, Johnny Harron, Frances Ross, Spottiswoode Aitken, and Jack Richardson.

SATURDAY. "WINE." "Here's how!" screamed a red haired girl. "Till the end of time," responded a blond youth across the table. All was gaiety in the night club.: The younger set was holding festival in a secluded Toom. "Safe as a church in here," the manager assured them. Bubbling drinks, gay toasts, brilliant music, dancing, dizziness—abandon. "So this is Rome. "We're all good Romans. Long may we wave—" "You're a Roman, too, Angela. And you're not doing right by us Romans. You're three drinks behind." And Angela Warriner, daughter of one of the city's most respected families, conscience smitten andi afraid, tried to veil her thoughts. She was dizzy. A youth tried to kiss ; her. She flung her glass at him. Screamed! "She's drunk," a voice laughed. "Mother! Father!" Incoherent words, crying bitterly. And tlhe youths tried" to soothe her with another drink. Loud knocks on the door! Excitement! Confusion! A raid! "We're caught!" someone shouted hysterically. This in "Wine," the Universal-Jewel all star production coming to the Empire Theatre on Saturday, turned the tide of adventure for a prominent American family that lost its head at thought of vanishing wealth ..and turned to bootlegging, revealing the great theme of the most gripping modern story ever screened.