ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1168, 6 November 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES

A most entertaining programme will be screened on Saturday night. The star drama of 2000 feet, “A Plunge for a Fortune,’’ is stated to be greatly exciting and wonderfully interesting, and a huge success wherever screened and most deservedly popular. The other dramas are “A Dangerous Foe,” a powerful dramatic play holding the audience from start to finish, and “Desert Sand,” a most fascinating drama, that strikes true to human nature. “The Eclair Journal” as usual is full of the most recent events, while “The N.Z, Animated News” will be found to contain many items of interest to all. “A Trip on a Swiss River” is a delightful Pathe Film, where you pay your fare at the ticket box and the operator does the rest. The comics are three in number. The first “Beau Brummel and his Bride,” is a fine Edison film telling the trials, troubles and tribulations that attended a run away match. The second, Calamity Anne’s Parcel Post,” tells of the wild, weird and wonderful wanderings of this woman. The third, “ Jenks becomes a Desperate Man,” is a most laughable and side-splitting farce. The above programme, having been specially selected will meet with the approbation of all lovers of Pictures.

TINY TOWN

ABOUT THE MIDGETS

Tiny Town, the wonderful midget city, will undoubtedly prove a great attraction at the Coronation Hall oh Thursday next, November 13th, The performers are all midgets, but not mis-shapen people. They are truly men and women, with all the hopes and ambitions, feelings and emotions of full-sized people. They are punctilious about their dress, the work of the first-class tailor or dressmaker. Their meals look like dolls’ tea parties, and they can effect some economy in the matter of sleeping apartments. Occasionally midgets marry each other, but more frequently the 35-inches-high man seeks his life’s companion among the girls of the “big” world. Deiderich Ulpts, who is one of the brainiest and smallest midgets in the world, is married to a normal-sized wife, and has two daughters who can easily lift their father up and put him on the mantleshelf. The tiny people have brought their Viennese cook to New Zealand, for they are mostly Austrians, and like their national dishes. For recreation their tastes vary quite as much as those of ordinarysized folk. The men like billiards, playing on a special miniature table which they bring with them. Two performances only will be given in .Foxton, a matinee at 3 p.m., and an evening performance at 8 o’clock. The box plan is at the Town Clerk’s office.