ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1328, 24 November 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. The excellent programme screened last night will be repeated tonight. The programme to be submitted to-morrow includes several interesting and educational films. One shows the Great Panama Canal as it is to-day, a picture that should not be missed ; “Visit to the Spider” is another of the interesting insect study series. The star film, “The Curse of War,” is a magnificent special of distinction by the great Pathe Company, in wonderful colour photography. The plot is quite an unusual one and the story is told with wonderful vividness. There will also be shown ; “Eawyer Quince,” comedy; “Gaumont Graphic,” topical; “Guilty or Not Guilty,” drama ; and “The Family Skelton,” comedy. MUNICIPAL PICTURES. The star drama in the programme to be screened at the above pictures to-morrow night is a rare dramatic offering indeed, viz., “Paid in Full,” being a strong story of strength and frailty of modern times. The other items of the programme will be a Pathe colour scenic, “On the Banks of the Crease” ; Vitagraph comic, “Art for a Heart” ; novelty film, “A Golf Demonstration” ; and the latest “Gaumont Graphic.” BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS. On Tuesday next at the Foxton Town Hall Mr and Mrs Graham Moffat’s company ol Scottish players present, “Bunty Pulls the Strings.” “Eunty” is a story of home life amongst the Scotch Presbyterians and Calvinists, told by a humorist, who is also a keen and faithful observer of human nature. The author plays the part of Tammds Biggar, a successful shopkeeper in the village of Lintiehaugh, a dour, hard-work-ing, sanctimonious “widow man,” who rules his family with a rod of iron, and is ruled in turn by the tactful artifices of his daughter, “Bunty.” A deal of animation aud fun are brought into the quiet home circle by the antics of Rab, a boisterous, prankish youth, who hates the dull village life and is determined to get away from the shop and see life in Glasgow, and liberate himself from the tyranny of his father. The nervous trepidation of Weelum Sprunt, the joiner, engaged to Bunty, who has been promised to “stand at the plate” placed on a stool in the open air near the porch, aud the arrival ot the villagers in midVictorian fashions, the girls in crinolines, chenille hair nets and pork pie bats, amusingly carries on the coAUfly to tinkle, tinkle, tinkle of tH®iurcli bell. In the last act Bunty holds the reins and brings everything into line for the general good and her own interest. The box plan is at the Town Clerk’s ofljce.