ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1262, 23 June 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES. The programme for to morrow night as will be seen from our advertising columns though of the usual length has not so many items as the average programme, but this is made up in the length of the individual subjects. Space will not permit us to describe in detail anything beyond the star drama “ Within the Enemy’s Lines,” It tells ot the time when the cheerful season of Christmas dawned on the bloody hopeless years of the Civil War, Col. Stafford's home lay in the midst of a great Northern Army. Col. Stafford, C.S-A., was a soldier of iron nerves. He had firmly resolved that he would give his children a real Christmas and shrank not at all f • the task ahead of him, although he realised the deadly risk. With the lew gold pieces he had, he bought the little uniform and doll for which he knew the children longed. Then, attired as a pedlar, he started on his difficult way home, Col. Deuby, of the Union Army, had met Col. Stafford when the Union colonel had been taken prisoner by the Confederates. He liked him immensely, but when he recognised him in the pedlar’s garb, his duty forced him to only one action. In command of a file of soldiers he entered the Stafford home, and told Mrs Stafford that he knew her husband was in the house. Little Bob Stafford knew that unless his father were captured in uniform he would be shot. So he slipped out of the house, swam the creek, and ran over to the Union camp. The soldiers knew him, and made no protest when he went over to talk with the Confederate officers. Bob whispered a lew words to one of them, and he slipped off his uniform and put it on the boy, ostensibly on account of the latter’s wet clothes. Bob raced back to his home and gave the uniform to his father. Then Col. Stafford surrendered himself with all the rights of a prisoner of war. Col. Denby, overjoyed at the happy outcome, gladly accepted the Staffords’ invitation to Christmas dinner. In the midst of it a message arrived for him, and he was able to assure the happy Stafford that he would be exchanged forthwith for a captured Union officer.