ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1248, 21 May 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES

The program me for Saturday night will be found a most interesting and excellent one. The star drama “The Open Door” is a forceful dramatic play of the world and the church, by the famous Broncho Company. John Blair was one of those rich old hypocrites who will donate a handsome sum to build a church, but who have no use for helping the poor and unfortunate. He was president of the Board of Trustees, and because he opposed Robert Walton, the young minister, in his plans to extend the activities of the church to the needy part of the town, Walton resigned and went to Boston to take up City mission work. Blair’s daughter, Grace, was in love with the minister, and in his rage her father turned her out. She went away with Walton, they married, and worked together in a mission called The Open Door. Several months before this Blair had driven his son from him, and the boy, who had never known what it was to do a day's work, drifted down the primrose path, finding himself one night at the threshold of The Open Door. Ignorant of whom the evangelists are, he stumbles inside. There he is joyfully recognised by his sister and her husband. Old Blair, who has been failing fast since Grace’s departure, hears how his son has been reformed, and, going to the city, hunts up the mission. He puts a cheque for in the hat. Walton and Grace see the signature; it only remains for father, son and daughter to be re-united on a new basis of sympathy and understanding. The other two dramas are “Between the Dances’’ and “The Fly-leaf of Fate.” The world’s news in clear pictures will be seen in the “Warwick Chronicle,” while the scenic film “Scenes in Calcutta,” will be found to be a fine picturesque moving panorama of the great capital of India. The comics are “Mary’s New Hat,” which is an Edison screamer causing great merriment; “Let ’em Quarrel,” being one of the Vitagraph’s laughter raisers, while “Wiffles and the Merry Widow” is a breezy comedy by the Pathe Co.