ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1116, 1 July 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES

; The astonishing patronage that the public of Foxton continues to give the Municipal Pictures night by night is ample proof that the excellence of the programme is •justly appreciated by the residents. For to-morrow night there is a really very attractive programme, ithe star picture, “The Schemers Outwitted,” is a powerful drama, .which tells the plan of a pair of adventurers to obtain the wealth of a gentleman of position is cleverly defeated. Phillip Legracge and Elsie Rose are lovers, and plot together to obtain a position for the girl as governess to the daughter of Mr Forgues, a gentleman of considerable wealth. How Mr Legrange loses his wife through drowning, and his daughter Jane is saved, and Else once having become the governess of Jane sets to try and fa'cinate Mr Legrange so as to become his wife, and how Jane runs away from home $0 as not to marry a man of her father’s choosing, and yet unknowingly both fall in love with each other, not knowing the other’s identity, and the happy union of the lovers, and the discomfiture of the adventuress when all her plans are discovered, is most realistically portrayed. The other drama films are “Driver of the Dead wood Coach,” and “Chief White Eagle.” In comics, “Mary’s Policeman,” “Miss Tweedledum,” and “Rodolpbi Apache,” are films which will produce the usual amount of merriment that is to be expected from such scenes. For the more serious members of the community who like something really interesting, the following three films will be found of such a nature, viz., “Snake Catching in Queensland,” “Minute Atoms of the Main,” and “The Perils of London Street Traffic” ; this last picture will be an eye-opeuer to some as to what the traffic is like in the largest city of the world. “The Peanut Industry” should also be well worth seeing, as though apparently a small industry, it is much larger than the public are aware of.

HAYWARD’S PICTURES. Wednesday’s star _ picture, “Called Back,” which is 4,000 ft. long, begins at a period when Italy was struggling to free herself from her Austrian foe, when, at the eleventh hour, Garibaldi came forward and saved bis country ; and the chief characters of the story (Dr Ceneri and Paolo Marcari) were closely allied in this movement. Dr Ceneri used trust monies held by him for his dead sister’s children to save his country. Ten years later Dr Ceneri is confronted with the. fact that, his country has squandered the money. Paolo Maeari, who knows the secret, falls in love with his sister’s daughter, Pauline, and is determined to make her his wife. Pauline’s brother, Anthony, regards his uncle with suspicion, and requires a settlement of their affairs. Ceneri informs a band of desperate characters of his straits, and they kidnap Anthony. Anthony insults Marcari, who stabs him to death, and Pauline, who witnesses the deed, loses her reason. Gilbert Vaughan, a blind man, wanders into Dr Ceneri’s house at the moment of the murder. He is drugged and put on the street. His friends laugh at his story. On recovering his sight, he falls in love with Pauline, ignorant of her identity and association with that terrible night’s deed. He meets Dr Ceneri, who accepts his offer to marry Pauline. When too late he finds she is mentally weak, Maeari tells him that Dr Ceneri is on the road to Siberia, a political prisoner. Vaughan then crosses the weary wastes of Siberia and learns the whole truth from Dr Ceneri. Maeari pays the penalty lor his treachery, and Gilbert finds in Pauline a beautiful, faithful and loving wife. The other dramas are “Her Artistic Temperament,” and “The Chocolate Revolver-” “Art and Industries in China” and “BizertaChina”are two good films, while “Funnicus and His Son” and “The Fashion Review” will provide plenty of amusement.

THE “BUTTERFLIES.”

The talented combination known as “The Butterflies” now touring New Zealand, will open a onenight season at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening of next week. The 'company is a particularly strong one, and whether it be one of the three ladies-—Misses Cecilia Gold, Ada Smart, or Marion Armitage—or the lour gentlemen in Messrs Jack Waller, Fred W. Dennett, Robert Foster-Hine, or Wylie Watson, that is occupying the stage for the item, the applause is sure to be instantaneous, and sincere. As they are in solo numbers, so are the company successlul in concerted work, particularly in the musical burlesques and excerpts from the operas. A strong feature of the troop is their “patter play,” an art they excel in. The company recently appeared for a season of 11 nights in Christchurch, and

the Lyttelton Times, in its’first night’s criticism, said : “The star instrumentalist was Mr Frederick W. Dennett, a pianist of a high order. His accompanying played an enormous part in the success of the entertainment, and in the Hungarian orchestra he was responsible for a wonderful performance. Taken all round, the entertainment was of a high standard, and it should appeal to musicians as potently as it must to those who believe that the mission of the theatre is to make people laugh.” The box plan is on view at the Town Clerk’s office.