ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1499, 20 January 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES. “THE MELBOURNE CUP.” A programme of exceptional merit has been arranged lor Friday and Saturday, including an excellent production depicting the race for the Melbourne Cup of 1915, also a 2000 ft. star comedy, featuring the world’s most popular comedian, Charlie Chaplin, in a 30 minutes scream entitled, “Work.” The Lubin Co. also presents a star subject, a unique and iascinating drama, “A House of Cards.” This is a thoroughly unusual photo play. A pack of cards is compared to life. There is shown a young man leaving his home town for a position in the city. His sweetheart waits for letters that arrive tardily, and eventually do not arrive at all. She pines away, while the m->n pursues his career. As in a , M poker the cards come bis wav, and it looks as if he will quit a good winner. But when the final call is made he is called on a four flush. For sheer originality of treatment Ibis play is one that will be remembered. Ocher pictures of interest are ; “The Smoking-out of Bella Butts,” a bubbling scream of laughter on woman’s determination ; “The Conversion of Smiling Tom,” a sterling Selig drama of the Wild West country; “Sports and Shorts,” a keen and delightful little contribution to the hours of merriment: “Topical Budget” ; and “Janet of the Chorus,” a particularly bright and laughable comedy by the Vitagraph Co.