ENTERTAINMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13877, 10 July 1919, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

PARAMOUNT THEATRE

ALICE BEADY FEATURE.

The mid-week change at the Paramount to-night includes Alice Brady in her Select masterpiece, "The Better Half." It is doubtful if the well remembered motive, tho substituting of one twin sister for the other, has ever been used more skilfully than in this story. It all starts off in the beaten track; the marvellous resemblance of the two girls, one weak and pleasureloving, tho other steadfast and devoted to dirty, both loving the same man. He is dazzled by the more showy sister, and marries her. She soon tires of him and runs away with the notorious Hendrick Thurston. The husband, in the meantime, is beaten by thugs, and his sight almost destroyed. He" keeps calling for his wife, and Louise, her sister, to save him. from a shock that may kill him, takes the absent woman's place. How she Avins tho place permanently is told so as to keep the interest at concert pitch. The story is full of action and sensation, and is brimful of interest throughout. "All for Her" is a fine two-reel Paramount comedy that cannot fail to convulse with laughter. A good supportingserics includes the latest "Pathe Gazette."

COSY THEATRE

"THE SOEEOWS OF SATAN."

The first English film seen, here for some time past will be shown in "The Sorrows of Satan," at the Cosy tonight. The traitor-angel Lucifer, for vowing to destroy the race of man, is thrust out from heaven in punishment. He visits the earth in the search for a soul which will reject him, and for overy soul he finds he is to be granted one hour's happiness. On earth he appears as Prince Lucio Eimanez, a man 'of fashion, and finds that, instead of rejecting him, everybody welcomes him with open arms. He meets' Geoffrey Tempest, a struggling author, and simultaneously Tempest receives an unexpected leg-, acy of five millions, and receives Lucio as a friend, so that God walks out and the Devil walks in. Lucio helps Tempest to shine in society, and introduces him to a beautiful society girl, tolling him that she is for sale to the highest bidder. Tempest marries her for position, and buys the country home from her father, thus saving him from ruin. Lady Sybil, his wife, falls violently in love with Lucio, and late one night leaves her room to seek him and confess her affection. Lucio rejects her advances, and the husband arrives on the scene in time to witness her grovelling at tho feet of Lucio. Ho determines to leave her, and departs for London. Sybil determines to take her life, and swallows ! poison. Beforo she dies, however, sho j realises who it is that she has loved, and I tries to warn her husband of the iden- | tity of his strange guest. The husband I returns to find her dead, and from the disjointed sentences of the final letter : she leaves him, recognises the visitor he has been entertaining and confronts him. Lucio throws off the mask completely, and in having to choose between good and evil, Tempest chooses tho former and rejects Lucio, who returns for the hour of happiness he has gained. The leading role iS\enacted by Miss Gladys Cooper. A good comedy and a Gazette aro included.

ROYAL TOGOS.

• Masterton theatre-goers will be afforded the opportunity next week of witnessing one of the finest vaudeville combinations that has ever yet visited Masterton. The famous troupe, which commences a season in the Opera House next Monday, includes the wonderful Royal Togos, the brilliant Japanese jugglers, balancers and tricksters. This turn is absolutely marvellous:, and has proved a huge success on the Fuller circuit. Throughout their act the audience is held spellbound in breathless astonishment. Louis Alsace, the famed European violinist and celloist, is also a show in himself. His rendering on the Alsacephone, and his imitations and turns on his cello and violin, are little short of miraculous. Dainty monologues will be provided by Billie Leslie, who also excels at the piano. Theatre patrons can rely on getting value from this fine combination.