ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1360, 13 February 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“HEMPTY DUMPTY” PANTOMIME. TO-NIGHT. Pleasurably anticipated by young and old, the StephensonLinley Pantomime extravaganza “ Humpty Dumpty ” is to be presented at the Coronation Hall to night for positively one performance only. The company consists of <>s people, and come well accredited Irom Austialia, where the principal States have been visited with great success. The principal humorist is Mr Con. Meroni, and he will be associated with Mr Ernie Lasabrook, both of whom are said to be excellent pantomimists, and are exceptionally clever eccentric dancers. The other principals • be Charles Howard (Ring Da/./aum), Miss Olive Robinson (Jack Buttercup), Miss Mollie King (Lolita), Miss Ida lugersole (Humpty Dumpty), Miss Stella Cazalla (Hassarac), Miss Pear Smaille (Conrad), Miss Alice Whittle (Hadj), Miss Bertha Ashman (Saji). The dressing, scenery, ballets, marches, and effects will be on an elaborate scale. The specialities are in the able hands of the Three Rubes and Lennon Hyman and Lennon. The company played “ Bo Peep ” here this time last year, and received an enthusiastic reception. Since then the company has been considerably strengthened, and are playing to packed houses everywhere they go. _ The managements’ enterprise in bringing such a large company to Foxton, should be rewarded with a bumper bouse. The box plan is now open at the Town Clerk’s office.

ROYAL PICTURES. s A well varied programme will be screened at the Royal to-night, the star film of which is a big human dramatic story entitled, “Fires of Ambition,” depicting the lust lor gold and the bitterness of revenge. The other pictures are : “Accused.” a pretty love story by the Kaleni Company ; “Jack Spratt as Bricklayer/’ comic ; “Australian Gazette,’’ topical ; “The Hunted Animal,” drama; “Recreation,” comic: “Famous German Resort,” scenic : “Sherlock Bonehead,” comic. The seventh series of Lucille Love will be shown in additiou to the above programme. On Monday night that great patriotic picture, “England Expects,” will be screened. The management has secured quite a number of good things to appear shortly, amongst which is “A Study in Scarlet,” and “The House of Temperly,” both by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and also “Trilby,” in which Sir Herbert Tree and bis company appear. The dates 011 which these features will be screened will appear in our advertising columns as soon as the dates are fixed.

MUNICIPAL PICTURES

The programme to he screened at the above pictures on Monday evening promises to be a most attractive one. The star drama, “The Foreman’s Treachery,’’ is a strong play with really wonderful power, lull ot vigorous- episodes and situations. It tells of the foreman who is a creature with a warped nature, that manifests itselt in many ways—-cruelty, cunning, and avarice being slrikingiy pronounced. The interest of the audience is gripped from the start, and one follows the career of the hero and the beautiful Welsh heroine with almost bated breath, as they pass through the many tangled schemes made to lure them from the path of duty and devotion. Towards the end of the drama, when the guilty foreman, who is a thief and a murderer, is carried through the mine at almost lightening speed in an ore truck, and meets his deserved fate, the tenseness of the situation is relieved by an exhiliraling ending. The other items of this programme are Pathe’s English Gazette (topical), Max Linder’s Persuasive Suicide (comic), The Torrents of the Cascades (scenic), The Signal (drama), Two Men and a Mule (comic), The Darkar (scenic), Married Men (comic), Our Country Cousins (Keystone comic).