ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1219, 12 March 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL, PICTURES,

Nothing finer has been screened for many a long day than the dramatic masterpiece of emotion, passion and power as shown in the strong appealing story depicting the temptations that beset a girl who desires to follow an art career. It is in this picture “Those Who Live in Glass Houses" that we see the great favourite Miss Marion Leonard at great advantage. Milly Denny is the daughter of a staid and well-to-do member of a small farming community. She has left her village home for an art career in the city, aud becomes famous. Among those who cross her path is a wealthy man, with a wife and child, of whom he was passionately fond. He pursues Milly, despite her efforts to rid herself of him. At last, realising his passion is hopeless, he returns to his wile, only to find she has died as a result of his desertion. The world believes that Milly is at fault. Rebuffed until her heart is nearly breaking, the climax is reached when she finds her mother has accepted the newspaper stories of her conduct as true, aud that the shock has killed her. Her father orders her from his house, and, bitter over her treatment, she determines to have the game as well as the name. Her father died, and she returns to her native village, only to be spurned by her former friends. She attends the church aud the minister is forced to agree to administer a warning, veiled, yet pointed, on the consequences of the evil life. She rises and asks permission to defend herself, and the minister permits her to speak. Milly knows the hypocrites of the congregation, and does not hesitate to speak on the theme of “Those That Live in Glass Houses." She returns to the city where she finds relief in her work, the creation of a masterpiece. The other items of this most fasciuatiug programme are as follows : “Tiny Tim Frightens his Mother,” comic; “Topical Budget," topical ; “For Lizzie’s Sake," comic; “Billy’s Career as Butler," comic ; “The MouogrammedCigarette,” drama; “Native Regatta at Tongkiug,” educational ; “The Hit of the Season,” comic. The usual free matinee for children takes place on Saturday afternoon.