ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1180, 4 December 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL, PICTURES. The large and most enthusiastic audience which attended at the above last night was ample evidence that there is no wane in the popularity of the Municipal venture. The management has secured another good programme for Saturday, and the star drama of 3,000 feet, a stirring story of Irish pluck, is bound to be appreciated. It is entitled, “Kelly of the Emerald Isle.” It tells how Barney Gilmore as Gerald Kelly, do minated this film completely, and the result is very pleasing. B lanche Cornwali makes a very entrancing little Shielah MacGuire, Kelly’s sweetheart, while Joseph fevering is the villainous Doolan, Kelly’s would-be Nemesis. A baulking donkey is made to drag a go-cart in the right direction by hitching him in the shafts wrong-end-10. Then Kelly goes down a rope over precipitous cliffs, about 80 feet high, with his sweetheart hanging on his neck. The biggest “punch” comes in the scene where Kelly is bound to a railroad track in front of an oncoming train. With a mighty effort he clears himself of his bonds, leaps on the cow-catcher as it hangs over him, and lies there kicking, but safe, as the train rushes by. The other dramas are: “The Race to New York,” and “The Girl of the Water Spring,” the former is another of the ever interesting Mary series ; while the latter tells of an Indian drama, combining natural scenery ot great beauty with a pretty love story, and culminating in a scene of great dramatic power, in which the hero’s skill with the lassoo saves the heroine from being carried to death in the rapids. “Deer in Captivity,” will be found a most instructive nature study. “The Eclair Journal” has some of the very latest items taken by the camera. There are three comics, viz., “Tiny Tim and the Terrier,” “Highbrow Love,” and “Saving Mabel’s Dad,” all of which will be bound to afford endless amusement and laughter to those who delight to have a real good hearty laugh.

THE NORWOODS. The popular entertainers who are now successfully entertaining large audiences in the Taranaki district, open for a two nights season in the Town Hall, Foxton, commencing on Monday next, December Bth. Writing of a recent performance, a critic said : —“Few people realised what uproarious mirth could be occasioned by hypnotic suggestion till they had seen the Norwoods. The performance proved a distinct success, and the possibilities of cataleptic trances, somnambulism, mental telepathy and control by hypnotism were proved in a manner that won prolonged merriment and applause. Mr Norwood’s work is scientific, and a revelation ot the infirmities of the average human personality in the presence of one gifted with magnetic power. Such infirmities are common, and their effects remarkably funny. Miss Winifred Norwood gave a surprising exhibition of thought-reading, and in each case did what was required without the utterance of a single word. Certain requests are obtained by Norwood. The telepathist, after being thrown into a' hypnotic trance, comes among the audience blindfolded, and the passage of thought waves between Norwood and herself produce the result. Some of the tests were considerably difficult.” The Norwoods are at present appearing at New Plymouth. A complete change of programme will be given nightly. Seats may be reserved at the Town Clerk’s office. No extra tees are charged for booking. The price of admission will be 3s, 2S and is.