ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1481, 4 December 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES. The current programme at the Town Hall is an exceptionally good one, including a stirring Vitagraph drama entitled, “Sunshine aud Shadow.” The story is one that grips and the mounting and acting superb and keeps one deeply interested from start to finish. Other pictures of interest are; “With the French Army in Lorraine,” an authentic and most interesting subject ; “In the Heart of the Woods,” drama ; “Austra* tralian Gazette” ; “The Three Sisters,” an appealing story of an old patriot; “Bill’s New Pal,” comic; and “Crossed Love aud Swords,” a brilliant Keystoue comedy, MONDAY AND TUESDAY. The change of programme for Monday and Tuesday is headed by a powerfully constructed character drama of Loudou slum and society life, by the London Photo Play Company entitled, “Lil o’ Loudon.” “Lil 0’ London” is a quaint character taken trom real life and part of her history woven into a drama. Lil, owing to the tenement which she has known as home being burnt down, while her father is being pursued by the police, finds herself, with a tiny tot of a sister, homeless and starving. A young society chap, taken by the motherly way that she looks after the tiny child, takes her to his flat, and tells his valet, a man of the strictest sort of code, so far as society customs are concerned. The young man’s mother is scon placed with the facts, aud she objects strenuously, but the situation is relieved by a young lady, a particular friend of Tommy Mordauut, the young man of society, adopting the children. Lil grows very fond of Tommy, and begets a most unreasonable jealousy. This leads to many complications, some of which are comic, some tragic. Lil’s father burglarises the house, and Lil struggles with him, neither recognising each other, till Lil falls stabbed. The lights are turned up and the father recognises his daughter. The end is one that will rank as an artistic triumph, the audience feeling a glow of satisfaction that things happened as they should. Supporting this “star” are the following: “Picturesque California,” scenic ; “William Henry Jones’ Courtship,” comedy; “The Phantom Thief,” drama ; “Hogan’s Aristocratic Dream,” Keystone comic ; and “The Latest Topical Gazette.”