ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1141, 2 September 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES. The continued popularity of the above was fully borne out again on Saturday night, when another bumper house attended to witness the usual interesting programme, and if prolonged applause is any criterion then the audience was fully satisfied with the films. Another splendid programme has been arranged for to-morrow night, the star drama being, “The Hidden Message,” a film of 2,600 feet, and is an all powerful, sensational and remarkable story, telling bow a wealthy property owner declares his love for an artist at his factory. Tired of her suppressed life she drpps a message into a vase she is making, imploring its reader to rescue her. It reaches a rich young society man who gets in touch with her and persuades her to elope with him, and an exciting chase by motor, motor boat and aeroplane ensues. The young couple are ultimately united for all time. The other two dramas are, “Her Fireman,” and “White Gazelle’s Error,” the former being an absorbing and interesting drama by the Thannhouser Company, and the latter an Indian cowboy romance of love and daring enacted amidst scenes of wild grandeur. The comics are three in number, “Trixie and the Press Agent,” an exceedingly clever comedy of real fun; “It Wasn’t Poison After All,” telling how a mischievous boy changes a syrup bottle for one containing carbolic acid and how a man nearly dies of fright thinking he has taken poison, but everything comes right on the boy confessing ; and “Coney Island,” a comedy enacted at this holiday resort over two swains desiring to take the same lady for a trip, and shows the many adventures in the one trying to outwit the other. The scenic, “Ceylon, Pearl of the Orient,” is a delightful scenic offering and is a most interesting film. The latest Topical Gazette will be brimful of events of the highest order, being both amusing and instructive. There is uo doubt that the whole programme is well worthy of the good patronage which is sure to be bestowed by the public td mark their appreciation of the efforts of the management to cater or their requirements.