ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3992, 27 July 1915, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OP MB A HOUSE PICTURES. To-night will be the fund opportunity of seeing the delightful programme at. the Opera House. Last . evening tb; re was a large attendance, and all thoroughly enjoyed this splendid series. The opening picture i“Work in U.S.A. Arsenal,” a very interesting industrial film. Following this is a powerful and thrilling drama, “A Night’s Adventure.” This is a ' strong and masterful play, with many pathetic situations. The outstanding feature is “Love. Speed, and Thrills.” This is the most strenuous Keystom 1 farce that has ever been presented. ’ The utterly absurd hero, the ridicu--1 sous villain, the farcical heroine, tin grotesque and comical situations ’ which happen, make the laughing a ; continuous roar. News from England and Europe js shown in the latest War Budget-, while “The Derelict” i; stirring and exciting Kalem dranui in two parts. To-morrow’s change oi j programme includes the ninth instalment of the remarkable wild-animal | serial, '‘Adventures of Kathlyn.” Wy)BLIPS PICTURES. The World’s Pictures have certainly excelled themselves in the programme now being presented in then popular theatre. The star feature b a revelation, and proved a pleasant ' surprise to the crowded audience. "Any Woman's Choice” is the title selected by the Essanay Co. for the feature mentioned, and it deals with tiiree characters, the man, the woman, the mutual friends, in phraseology tlie “eternal triangle.” The sum and substance is, Which did svb choose ? The problem delves deep into psychology*, it is subtle, insinuating, recurring with great force each time you shrink from the vital point at issue. What would the average ; woman do in such a case? Ibis is - the climax of the photoplay skilfully ■ wrought by master hands. 'Phis is not the strong point- of the play, it is in the fact mat no answer is vouchsafed to the query, leaving every man or woman appealed to, to reason out the ending to suit their own convictions. The whole fabric of the ph-lure centres on tho crucial question, and. it is' as fascinating as it is well conceived. The whole action concentrates on the three characters, the two men and the woman, and these roles are rendered with greatexpression bv Francis X. Bushman, Bryant Washburn, and Aliss Beverly Bayne. The supporting programme is well up to standard and as a whole is of excellent merit. “BU.NTY PULLS THE STRINGS.” Few plays meet with such instantaneous- success as that which attended the first- performance of “Bunt.v Pulls the Strings” in Sydney recently. The Sydney “Daily Telegraph” says : “Tho reason of ‘Bunty’s’ success is not far to seek. Bunty and Ta minus, Weelum and Rah, Susie and Ellen are just such national types as the older generation—and some of the younger, too—.reverently ire-members —not out here, perhaps, but tradition, lias handed. down the pictures; while the Bwntys and Teenies haves not altogether disappeared from Scottish, soil, even in these days of hobble-skirts and what-nots. And then, these c.liaI ranters do not, after all, take us back fso very far, for have we not the author’s own confession that- Bunty is liis own conception of what his mother was as a girl, and that the sayings of Bunty are his mother’s very own? There have! been many maggies and Marys who have done duty on the stage, and! who have won tlie:f audiences to an appreciation of Scottish character. But there has been no Bunty .like that of- Mr Moffat’s Bunty. Throughout tho three brightly constructed acts there is no attempt to force the humor.” “Bunty” will he played for the first time in Gisborne on Monday next. “A Scrape -o' the Pen” is the title of Mr Moffat’s now play which will occupy the boards on the second and last night of the season, viz., Tuesday, August 3rd, and this play has lately been, a very big success in Sydney and finished: its Auckland season last night- to make way for a four nights’ revival of “Bunty” beginning to-night .after which the-company (including Mir and Mrs Graham Moffat) will leave direct for Gisborne by Saturday’s boat. Tho box plans for both productions will be on view at Miller’s from to-morrow morning.