ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1115, 28 June 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES.

Monday night will be the first of the extra nights as decided by the Borough Council to be run in addition to the usual two nights of pictures* and therefore a good programme has been obtained to inaugurate the change from two to three nights. The whole programme is one that will satisfy the lovers of the different sorts of pictures* The star drama, “The Crooked Path,” is 2,137 feet long, and is one of those highly interesting films which works up the interest to boiling point, and which ends to the satisfaction of the audience. The other drama films, “The Days of Forty-Nine,” "The Girl of the Grove,” and

“The Uprising,” will appeal to all patrons. What took place in “forty-nine” is known to most, but it will be the pleasure

of patrons to see the stirring incidents for themselves. “The Girl of the Grove” will - meet

with full approval, for it is a film that is sure to please. The scenic film, “River Aare,” is one that makes the audience wish they were really viewing the natural

beauties as they are shown on the screen. “The Uprising” will satisfy those who so dearly love the cowboy and Apache Indian pictures. Forthe younger folks and those who relish the comic films, there is a very good variety in “Tweedledum’s Birthday,” “Simple Simon’s Pertinacity,” and “When Woman Rules.” The vagaries of Tweedledum have met so often With the thundering applause of patrons at the exhibitions shown at the Coronation Hall that Monday night will no doubt see the usual large number of admirers present. The same may 1 well be said of Simon, whose antics have been exhibited so often at the Muni-

cipal Pictures. “When Woman Rules” is a film that will afford . an insight to those who would be willing to give the ‘‘lady voter” the right to vote. Summed up briefly, one can say that the programme for Monday night will be up to the usual excellent standard

of the Municipal Pictures, notwithstanding the'tale of “the man in the Street’ ’ that the Municipal Pictu , ‘es jpould not be able to procure aerogramme for Monday night. Jin reducing the prices and giving'Sree shows a week, the CouucilTlls laid itself out to please the, ratepayers to the utmost of tliejte' ability, and the continued splendid patronage afforded so far slidws that the Municipal Pictures sijll are the favourites with the mass of the people.

/ |JAY WARD’S PICTURES. r The star film for to night is “The Torch of War.” This film conveys a vivid impression of war scenes, and deals with circum- .. stances b«.jio means improbable. Helga r a||pjutant’s daughter, is , in foreign officer, who i stayin'MS her father’s house, wh .'n f a Jifflaration of war is received; lifelga declares that she can never wed a man who is fighting against her country, and the officer leaves. Helga discovers a t*'at conveying some of the t emies spies. She watches them depart and destroys the boat and f ives an alarm which results in > the capture of the spies. The enemy now attack her father’s castle and take possession of it. Helga’s lover is sitting with the General planning out the campaign, when the General retires leaving the papers in the officer’s possession, Helga tries to get the papers but is caught by her lover, but Helga by promising to be his wife, is allowed to keep the papers and is captured yrhen attempting to escape. Her lover takes the blame upon himself and receives, a death,sentence and is shot the

next morning. The programme for Monday night’s entertainment at the Royal is exceptionally good, besides the attraction of the star drama, there being two lovely scenics and an educational subject. The centre of of course, will be in the star, “Falsely Accused,” a noteworthy production by the Hubsch company, 3,000 feet in length, and. figuring the capable actress, Miss Esta Neilsen. The story told by this film is of a loving sister who, to protect her brother who is a gambler and cheat, hides him from arrest, and to obtain money to enable him to

leave the country she sells her

jewels. Her lover, who cannot understand her moods, follows

her, and, denounces her to her parents as having another lover. When the parents and lover see that she was shielding her brother they are filled with remorse, and the story ends happily with reconciliation with her lover. Of course, the programme is made complete with other interesting dramas, and the comic element is

provided in “Stranger and the Taxi Cab,” and “Jim Mistaken for Foolshead,” the last two films being well described as 1,500 feet of real good fun.

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