ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1367, 27 February 1915, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES

Picture lovers who have been following up the great mystifying and fanscinatiug picture, “Lucille Love," will be pleased to know that the 9th instalment will be shown this evening at the Royal. This production has proved a great triumph locally and every week gets more exciting and it is wonderful how this picture has taken on. Besides this the “star” film in the ordinary programme is a grand Nordisk special entitled “A Woman’s Way.” This, like all this well known company’s productions, is of a very high order and is a story ot heart interest with a lender tale oi love running through it. Other items of this most excellent programme are; “Australian Gazette,” topical ; “The Puritan,” drama ; “His it', nutation at Stake,” drama; “The Widow of Red Rock,” comedy “Life in Senegal,” scenic; “He Wanted Work,” 1 comic. On Monday night the great patriotic cira «a, "racing the Enemy,” will be screened. It is I a story touching on the present | war and shows hew the German 1 spy system is worked, Another splendid drama is one by the Selig Co. entitled, “A Counterleit Santa ! Clau«. ! ' The supporting film is on equal merit with the “star” and should attract a bumper bouse.

M UXICIPAL picture: A splendid programme is ofle. at the above pictures this even 1 ' The star dralna. “Codes Honour,” is intensely interest its aim is to convince, its key sincerity, its essentials power plot, and its interest the h. The other items will be ; “ I) Lone Cap Way. ’ dra “Bunny's Swell Adair,” con. “The Latest. Gazette,” topic “Wireless from the War,” tensely interesting ; “ Tig, Shoes,” comic; “An Inferha Tangle,” drama ; “Miss Lena,’ contortionist. PULLER’S PICTURES.

Picture goers will be pleased to learn that the Coronation Hall will in future be known as Fuller’s Pictures, and taking into consideration that the pictures are identical with those shown at the leading Wellington picture theatres in The King’s, Everybody’s and The Brittania, patrons can be assured of a continuity of the best procurable. A special feature of oar opening programme is “A Ideal with the Devil,” and shows how Walter Harben, a young and ambitious American medical student, has a dream. Mephistopheles approaches him muttering—“lt you will give me ten years of your life, I will give you the power to diagnose any disease and to foretell a patient’s recovery or death. I will appear to you at the head of a patient in death, and at the foot in case of recovery.”- Mepbistopheles, alluding to the' King’s illness, tells Walter he will give him the power to save him, and in his dream Walter visits the palace, where the King is in a critical condition. All at once he sees Mepbistopheles at the King’s feet. Under Walter's treatment the King recovers, and fame is attained at one bound. As the dream continues Walter meets tbe Baroness Ida. The Baroness, having heard of Walter’s faqie, sends for him. • At the bedside he sees the figure of Mepbistopheles at the head, and knows that his power to save the woman is unavailing. He beseeches Mehistopheles to spare Ida’s ir and he agrees, adding, “ . , m take one day tbe deare.v .. ! o, love.” Five years after' s, Walter having married Ida. .; is well until one night their becomes seriously ill, and j. . phistopheles appears at the head of the bed. Walter tries to trick the terrible being by turning the child round in bed, but Mepbistopheles quickly changes his position. Next be dreams that Mephistoles takes both himself and his wife into his flaming keeping. With a start Waller awakes. He has learned the penalties and folly of ambition. He beckons to his fellow-students and shouts: “ Let us be merry while we are young. I now know that fame and wealth are not life’s greatest gifts,” Other pictures of special interest are; “ Pathe’s English Gazette,” topical ; “ The Silver Snuff Box,” drama; “Cowboy Clarence.” comedy; “ Among the Adirondack Mountains,” scenic; ” The Detective’s Desperate Chance,” drama; “Three of a Kind,” comic.