ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1535, 13 April 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES,

There was a full house at Fuller’s last night to witness the 14th episode of “The Million Dollar Mystery.” This instalment, as usual, is full of exciting and sensational incidents and again shows the ‘‘Black Hundred” outwitted by the ever resourceful Norton. Supporting items of merit are : ‘‘The Belgian Troops Storming the German Trenches,” Interest ; “Through Switzerland in Ten Minutes,” scenic ; “Charlie Chaplin’s Busted Romance,” cartoons ; “The Guiding Light,” drama ; “Fair, Fat and Saucy,” comedy ; “Pathe Gazette” ; and “Foiled,” comic.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. On Friday and Saturday the management has arranged for the first' presentation here of the Broadway star feature, “The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray,” featuring Miss Helen Gardner in the lead. A society woman marked a playwright, but deserts him to live with a protector, named Lennox. Her daughter is taken away by a former servant. The husband loses his memory and becomes a nomad. In the course of years the woman is thrown over by her protector, and she kills him. The daughter meanwhile has grown into a beautiful woman and is engaged to a clever artist. She is abducted by a professional hypnotist, and how she is released and brought back to her parents makes one of the most powerful photo-plays yet written. Other good pictures are: “Never Despair,” comedy ; “The French Front at Quennievieres,” interest; “A Test of Courage,” drama ; “Australian Gazette” ; and “A Quiet Game,” comedy.

“WITHIN THE LAW” COM PANY.

Foxton theatre-goers will be given the opportunity at the Coronation Hall on Monday next of witnessing the most popular comedy, “Get-Rich-Ouick Wallingford,” ever staged by the Williamson firm. In this play Miss Dorrlngton will appear as Fanny Jasper, the cute stenographer, and Mr Walsh as J. Rufus Wallingford, Esq., the man who made money out of other people’s money. The company will appear for two nights only and on Tuesday night the great military drama, “The Man Who Stayed at Home,” written by Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry will be staged. It was inspired by the earlier phases and experiences of the great war, when Britain was perturbed by the conviction that German spies were working actively in her inidst. As the title suggests “The Man Who Stayed at Home” was contemptuously treated by his friends, until he did better service for his country, then he could possibly have achieved with a tide in the trenches, by exposing the operations of a nest of German spies. The play is strongly caste among those appearing being •Mr Lionel Walsh (Christopher Brent “The Man Who Stayed at Home”) Miss Hilda Dorrington (Miriam Lee). Something special is promised in the way of sqenery and effects, especially the working of the wireless outfit, which is quite capable of sending messages. Special sanction, since the dismantling of wireless plants, had to be obtained from the military authorities to use this plant in the production. The box plan for the performances is now on view at Mrs Teviotdale’s, where seats may be reserved without extra charge.