ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1540, 18 April 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“WITHIN THE LAW” COMPANY TO-NIGHT.

Miss Hilda Dorrington and Mr Lionel Walsh will be seen in the leading roles of Miriam Lee and Christopher Brent respectively in “The Man Who Stayed at Home” to-night, when the “Within the Law” Company will appear in the Coronation Hall. The scene of “The Man Who Stayed at Horae” is set in the private sitting room in the hotel or an English watering place, within comparatively easy distance of the continental coast, and theretore specially suitable for the transmission of Marconi messages, and the despatch of special information by carrier pigeons. This is the home centre of a quartettee of unsuspected German spies. In familiar and confiding association with these are John Preston, a bumptious J.P., and his pretty young daughter Molly, and various other unsuspicious English people. But included in this circle is Christo pher Brent, Molly Preston’s lover, an able-bodied young man who astonishes his friends and grieves his sweetheart by persistently declining to enlist, and who cannot explain his reasons, because he is engaged in the more important service of spy detection. He is on the trail of the Sanderson quartette and in spying on the spies he diverts suspicion from himself by an artistic assumption of the character of an fatuous and good natured waster. A clever and experienced woman of the world, Mrs Lee, joins the circle to cooperative with Brent. How this pair fathom the plots, intercept their communications, discover the secret wireless machine which -is hidden behind the fireplace and eventually track them to earth is told in the remaining acts of the play, which is void of interest flagging patches. The box plan is on view at Mrs Teviotdale’s, where seats may be reserved without extra charge. FULLER’S PICTURES. The popularity of the world’s greatest serial, “The' Million Dollor Mystery” continues unabated, and the 15th episode in “The Borrowed Hydroplane” is an exceptionally brillant number. Defeat after defeat seems only to spur the “Black Hundred” to greater daring, which requires more hazardous plans and rescues by Jones and Norton, as is vividly portrayed in this episode. Boldly they take Florence from, her guardians and rush her out to sea. Meantime, they descend on the house of mystery in force and demand the $1,000,000 of Jones. A great winged man-bird speeds out over the sea ; Jones stands at bay in a fight to the finish ; and, in a sudden turn of the wheel, the “Black Hundred” again faces defeat. Also an uproarious society comedy, “Queenie of the Nile,” featuring Billy Reeves. It shows how Billy gets a job with a wealthy woman whose madness is that she is Cleopatra, and her lover is Mark Antony. Billy enacts Mark Antony, but falls in love with Cleopatra's maid, Charmian. Jealousy in the breast of Cleopatra springs. But just see what Billy springs. It is a scream. Other items of interest are: “Au Revoir—Departure of the Bth Reinforcements,” interest; “For Love of Mary Ellen,” drama ; “Pathe Gazette” ; “In Spite of Him,” drama; and “Their First Quarrel,” comedy.