ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1330, 28 November 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES

The star drama in this evening's programme, “The Pepperbox Inn Tragedy,’’ is one that should draw a bumper house, for Monsieur Lecoq, the greatest of French detectives, is seen to great advantage in this stirring play. The other items of the programme are ;—“The Australian Gazette” (topical), “A Queen’s Mercy,” (drama), “Agra” (scenic), “Blue or the Grey” (drama), “Getting Solid with Pa” (comic), “Max’s melodrama” (comic).

A regular treat is in store for picture patrons on Wednesday evening next when they will have the opportunity of witnessing the first photo play produced in New Zealand, viz., “Hinemoa,” the legend of the pretty Maori maiden of Rotorua. The picture was filmed in Rotorua on the original spots, which have been handed down by generations of Maoris as authentic landmarks in the lives of their ancestors.

BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS.

Mr Watson Moffat, in an American magazine, narrates how his brother, Mr Graham Moffat, whom he calls “Bill,” wrote “ Bunty Pull the Strings,” which is to be staged at the Coronation Hall on Tuesday evening next. “ Bunty,” he says, “ was written about six years ago, and Bill didua want to have it produced until some of the sketches and one-act plays he had written before had made their success. He didna realise that ‘ Bunty,’ being, as it were, an inspired picture of his ain mitber, had so rare a place in dramatic literature. It is plays inspired from the heart that have reached and touched the hearts of the whole world. The humour of Bill’s comedy, though it appears unconscious, is really the best part of bis skill as a dramatist. Bill always had a great sense of humour, and I have heard him read ‘ Bunty ’ from the manuscript and laughed heartily at the humour. The corned}' lines which have pleased the audiences most in ‘ Bunty ’ are things that Bill has heard the village folk say, and things he had seen , them do, when he was travelling wi’ his sister Kate on these concert tours. For many reasons ‘ Bunty ’ is the accumulation of Bill’s keen recollections of Scottish types. There is in ‘ Bunty ’ the prevailing element of reverence for the kirk, tor to the Scotchman resolution in religious matters is the most important part of his nature.” The box plan is at the Town Clerk’s office.