ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1032, 28 November 1912, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PICTURE SHOW

Have you seen the programme for Saturday ? It’s well worth reading. The strongest features ot this programme are the dramas, all of which are full of deep human interest. “The Little Match Girl” is an intensely dramatic story of a rich child and a poor little waif. The waif sees a beautiful doll in a shop window, and every day she comes to see the doll, until one day it is missing—it has been bought for the child of the wealthy. How the little waif grieves for the doll the story will show. Another very touching drama is, “The Child’s Prayer.” The opening scene shows John Devereaux and his little motherless girl at the grave of his dead wife ; sad as is this scene, it is lacking in the pathos which surrounds a similar scene miles away in the dreary desert, where Bert King, his arm around his motherless boy, kneels iu silent prayer beside a grave crudely ornamented by a wooden cross, which contains all that is mortal of his wife. Then we see the prayer of the two children so differently situated, the prayer that is to make such a difference iu the lives of both men. “Me and Bill,” is another dramatic story of the sweet friendship existing between two old cronies and their children. A very pretty comedy is “Winnie's Dance, taken from “That Winsome Winnie Smile.” A most interesting film will be, “Elephants at Work in India”; the usefulness and sagacity of the huge animals if very wonderful. The elephant is very useful iu lifting heavy weights. There is also a Gaumont Graphic,” and a scenic film, besides a number of clever and interesting comedies.