Entertainments

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 June 1913, Page 3

Entertainments

KING'S THEATRE.

"The Pride of the Circus," a drama by the Nordisk Company, is 3000 ft in length. "Tho Pride" is a tight-rope walker, who perform* •wonderful feats, and contrives to wheel a cannon along a stretched rope. In the course of tho tour the circus comes to a certain town where there resides a Magistrate* pretty daughter. .She and the rope-walker fall in love While thf circus is in progress, the magistrate's house catches firo, and the girl is cut off by the flames at tho top of the house. Hope of saving her is abandoned, but the ropewalker to « corresponding top storey of the other part of the house, throws a rope across to the girl, and rescues her. Tho magistrate will not hear of his daughter marrying the rope-walker. Nothing daunted, the circus man sets oiw to make money. He undertakes an amusing feat of equalibrium, ain. a great crowd assembles to watch the performance. Among the troupe there is a snake dancer, "Tola" by name, who also is in love with the rope-walker, and she schemes how shi' can prevent him from marrying her rival. With this end in view she lets her-pot snake loose on The day of the performance. Tt crawls up the building and along the rope, upon which the man is wheeling a cannon. The crowd is horrified, bu'i the magistrate's daughter risks hoi life and captures the snake. Tho feat is accomplished and tho money and the girl won. with the ease and rapidity that seems quite easy—in melodramas. This film will he projected at the King's Theatre, on Mondav next.