ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1387, 17 April 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES.

“His First Case,’’ a thrilling Lubiu star feature of sensational and stirring episodes, created a very lavourable impression on its initial screening at the Town Hall last evening. You are introduced to systematic smugglers of the material that create drug fiends, and are shown that these people will stop at nothing that will assist them In their nefarious trade. There is also an excellent complement of vaudeville, dramatic and comic items.

What purports to be and certainly is oue of the finest dramatic films ever screened, will be presented ou Monday and Tuesday, 19th and 20th. The Lubiu Company's powerfully pathetic drama, featuring America’s greatest child actress. The drinker, the abstainer, the neither. There is here a strong lesson for you in, “The Inspector’s Story.” The lure of drink to the unheeding is forcibly presented in this study of humanity. The husband continues his bibacious habits even as his wife is dying, and iu a drunken brawl kills a fellow man. This act hastens his wife’s death, and leaves his only child, a daughter of tender years, aloue, almost friendless and grief-strickeu. Arrested for murder and sentenced, the man’s remorse begins. How the child came to realise her father’s fearful position is shown with touching beauty and cleverness. She starts out to save his life. The audience follow her breathlessly, a growing heartache for her disappointments and a fearful apprehension lest she should fail. She reaches the governor of the prison and pleads that he obtain her lather’s release. One sees the conclusion of this great play with tear dimmed eyes, yet with a sudden reeling of optimism and an awakening confidence in the power and goodness of humanity. The humorous branch is well cateied for with a conspicious Pathe comedy, “Max on the Briny,” featuring Max Linder, who was recently wounded and who is now again fighting for his country in the present war. This shows the oue and only Max spending a holiday ou the Riviera. Characteristically, he has a good time amongst the girls, and needless to say it is very gay when on the ocean. And various other items of interest. Book early by ’phone 88 or at Mrs Teviotdale’s.