ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1210, 19 February 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL, PICTURES.

For Saturday evening an exceptionally strong programme has been arranged. The star film of 3,500 feet is an exciting and thrilling spectacular play, being full of sensational and stirring episodes and strong and eminently powerful sensations. It tells a thrilling story of the exploits of a gang of expert thieves. Vivian Vane gambles at his club, and loses heavily to Guy Molyueux. He Is unable to pay, and when Molyueux visits him, more in jest than in earnest, Vivian tells his persecutor there is nothing left for him but to join the Black Circle gang. Molyneux seizes upon the despairing remark, and says he can show him the way. Vivian is initiated that night, and is soon elected to carry out a robbery. He sees his mother’s portrait looking down upou him, and determines to reluse the task and leave the countr}. He arrives in Chicago, with letters of introduction to Amos Brown, a millionaire farmer out West, and soon gets work on a farm. He marries his daughter, Edith. Meanwhile, the detective is on the scent of the Black Circle, and all are captured but Molyneux, the leader. He goes to America, and discovers Vivian, whom he threatens to expose unless he gives him money, which he refuses to do. In revenge, the blackmailer abducts Edith, but Vivian and the cowboys rescue her, but Molyneux escapes and throws himself over a precipice, and is killed. The other items are, “N.Z, Animated News,” a grand number of Maoriland topical pictures; “Leonce and his Guardian,” a hilarious film, humorous in the extreme; “Crayfish,” a fine pictorial object lesson in natural history; “An Unwritten Chapter,” an excellent Vitograph him in which the biter is badly bitten; “The Latest in Life Saving,” a great Keystone, full ol mirth ; “Through the Valley of the Danube,” a magnificent scenic of a journey amid entrancingly beautiful scenes ; “The End of the World,” a diverting comedy full of fun without end. The whole programme is one that should draw a good audience.