ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1534, 11 April 1916, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FUELER’S PICTURES.

“THE ESCAPE.”

Probably no better picture has ever been screened in Foxtou than “The Escape,” screened at the Town Hall last night. It shows the escape of a woman from poverty and degradation, through sin, suffering and sorrow to a better life. From the opening picture showing May Joyce, longing for a better life, and beseeching her father to better the condition of his children ; through the years of degradation until at last the girl struggles up from darkness into light, the picture is real. WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY. To-morrow’s change of programme is reputed to be an exceptionally good one, containing no less than three star pictures. A comedy featuring our old friend, Charlie Chaplin, in “Charlie’s Busied Romance,” the 14th episode of “The Million Dollar Mystery” in “Tracked by Secret Police,” and an authoritative filming of a part of the firing line, “The Belgian Troops Storming the German Trenches,” this is one of the finest pictures taken since the war began. Supporting items of merit are : “Through Switzerland in Ten Minutes,” scenic ; “The Guiding Light,” drama ; “Foiled,” comic ; “ Pathe Gazette,” topical; and “Fair, Fat and Saucy,” comedy.

“WITHIN THE LAW” COMPANY.

Under the Dramas Ltd. management the popular and talented “Within the Law” Company, who appeared here last year in “Within the Law” will present this year the famous play by special arrangement with J, C. Williamson Ltd., “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” the most recent successful drama dealing with the present war written by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry., Miss Hilda Dorrington and Mr Lionel Walsh will again be seen in the title roles supported by the full strength of the popular “Within the Law” Company, which this year’includes Mr George Chalmers, for many years principal character man with J. C. Williamson ; Mr Fred Coape, who played Nero with the original Julius Knight production ; Miss Katie Towers and Miss Winifred Galdwell, late with the J. C. Williamson firm. In “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” Miss Dorrington will appear as Mirian Lee, and Mr Walsh will play the title role of Christopher Brent. A high-powered wireless plant costing the firm considerably over ,£IOO is travelled for this production, and the plot of the drama depends on the working of this outfit which is installed in a secret fireplace by German spies. How the tables are turned and how Brent uses their wireless plant to sink by British men o’-war their own submarine is told in the last exciting act of the play. “The Man Who Stayed at Home” will be staged at the Coronation Hall Foxton on Tuesday next, April xßth, for one night only. The box plan is now on view at Mrs Teviotdale’s, where seats may be reserved without extra charge.