ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1195, 13 January 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

BENEFIT ENTERTAINMENT

TONIGHT. A final reminder is given of the benefit entertainment to be held in the Royal Hall to-night in aid of the widow and family of the late Mr W. Edgar. A really first-class “programme of vocal items, pictures, poi dances and hakas, etc., has been arranged and those who attend are assured of value for their money in the way of entertainment and they will, in addition, have the satisfaction ot knowing that by their attendance they are also assisting a very deserving case. The picture programme includes a fine B. and C. drama of 1,254 ft., “Sagacity v. Ciitne,” which depicts Robert Hartley, a bank clerk, rejected by his employer’s daughter, planning with a gang of crooks to rob the bank- Arthur Wellesley, Hartley’s rival, in love, surprises them and with the office bull dog follows them to the gang’s headquarters, where he is overpowered. Wellesley sends a message for help by the dog, and the police raid the house capturing the gang. MUNICIPAL PICTURES. The programme for to-morrow night is one that should draw a good house’, as the star film, “Shipwrecked,” is altogether a remarkable story of love and adventure dealing with “The Equality of Man.” It tells how Jones, a valet, enters the service of a millionaire and goes with his master, his daughter Patricia, and a society man Paxton, to whom she is almost engaged, on a yachting trip. The engagement becomes a fact during the voyage and one day Patricia finds that Jones is better read than she thought as she finds a book of his “The Equality of Man.” The yacht gets wrecked and all the boats get capsized in the surf of a coral island. The party, too weak to swim, is washed in by the tide on to the island. During their stay there, Jones becomes a hero, and Patricia realises that she cares for him. Jones knows when he sights a sail unknown to the others, that if they go back Patricia will be lost to him, but he hails the vessel and the party is rescued. Months later Patricia finds she cannot marry Paxton, and in a different corner or the world Jones is struggling to make himself worthy of her and her estate. The other drama, “The Girl and the Judge,” is a great emotional film of power and interest telling how a young girl runs away with a man whose real name she does not even know and who leaves her after taking her to town. She is fined by the yontig man’s father, a Judge, for wandering about the streets. Answering an advertisement for a situation she finds herself in the judge’s house, and how she wins the Judge's sense of justice and consent to the marriage is well portrayed. The comics, “A Box of Canine Mischief,” “The Husband’s Trick,” and Cohen’s Outing,” are all of the merriment making sort. The first is a huge scream being genuinely funny ; the second depicts the subjugation of a strongminded wife ; and the last is said to cause convulsions. “Pathe’s Gazette,” is the very latest edition of this most excellent pictorial. , The scenic and industrial pictures are all most interesting and worth seeing, more particularly “Village Life in Central India,” which is a Pathe colour.