ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1213, 26 February 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“ 80-PEEP ” PANTOMIME

TOWN HALL, TO-MORROW NIGHf.

There is every indication that the first performance of the Royal Pantomime Company in Little BoJ?eep, at the Town Hall to-morrow flight, wili be made before a crowded house. The occasions are rare indeed that Foxton playgoers are afforded the opportunity of witnessing a pantomime at popular prices, especially when it is to be said that the pantomime to be staged compares more than favourably with any others that have been staged here. Little BoPeep has been a winning card lor the Royal Pantomime Company for several years past, and is now being played to crowded houses throughout the Dominion. A feature of Little 80-Peep will be the dressing, which will be on an extensive and lavish scale ; this not only applying to the principals, but also to the chorus as well. The ballet will present many novelties, the principal being the rag-time revue, the latest style of dancing, including the well-known tango dance. The speciality turns —always a feature in pantomime —are mainly provided by the Anderson trio and the Gresham four, and these artists will introduce several novelties and also some clever acrobatic and handbalauciug work. Mr Harry Whaite, Australia’s foremost scenic artist, was entrusted with the work of producing the scenery, and has turned out some striking effects. Miss Kathleen Mack, the principal boy, as Jack Straw, will be heard in up-to-date songs. Mr Victor Longdall, as the “Dame,” is the life and soul ot the piece, his comedy being of a very high order. ’ Miss Elsie Nicolas is principal girl, and has some charming songs to sing. The box plan is rapidly filling at the Town Clerk’s office.

MUNICIPAL, PICTURES

The programme for Saturday night promises to be one ot more than usual interest. The star drama, “The Sacrifice at the Spillway,” is a sensational Kaletn production of 2,000 feet. This picture tells of an exciting story of an American canal, and an engineering structure, which litts barges over a bill. Bob, a barge “hand,” and Sal, are sweethearts. Curtis, the barge captain, rejects his old fiance, and forces his attentions upon Sal. This leads to a fight between Bob and Curtis, in which the latter receives a thrashing. The trouble is continued on a subsequent occasion, and Curtis, while intoxicated, attacks his employer, who endeavoured to intercede. Curtis is thereupon dismissed, and Bob is appointed captain. Curtis, later on, tries to smash up Bob and his barge by wrongfully operating the levers on the spillway. Bob is saved through the bravery of Sal, who struggles with Curtis. While endeavouring to escape, Curtis is intercepted by Bob, and during a desperate encounter between them on the edge of the spillway, Curtis’ rejected fiancee shoots the villain dead and saves Bob. The other dramas are, “The Stolen Treaty” and “The Twin Brothers,” the former being an exceptionally powerful A.B. drama, while the latter is an Edison of great originality and invention. “The Topical Budget” and “Gaumont Graphic,” as usual, will be full of recent and interesting events. “Salmon Fishing and Scenery, Columbia, 5 ’ is one of Pathe’s very fine and educational films. The novelty film, “The Humorous Bull Fight” is one that is well worth seeing, while the comics, “The Hobo and the Myth,” “Simple Simon and the Rajah’s Diamonds,” and “Jim Wanted by the Police,” are all such that will cause any amount of merriment and laughter.