ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1556, 27 May 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES. The current programme at Fuller’s includes ;i shir iicm of’exceptional merit in a stirring two-part drama, “The Way of (lie Transgressor.” Supportiny pictures consist of, “The Cowboy Village,” a knockabout farce ; “The Telegrapher's Peril,” melodrama ; “The Australian Gazette,” topical ; “His Three Brides,” comedy. MONDAY AND TUESDAY. “THE PRISONER OF ZENDA.” On Monday and Tuesday the greatest, romantic drama of recent years will be screened at the Town Hall, “The Prisoner of Zenda.” Romance, blended with the thrill of danger and doubt ; loyalty, emphasised by surrounding treachery and intrigue ; the impulse of daring and the ecstasy of hazard ; the tense struggle of souls in combat ; the battle between desire and denial; reckless ambition and the misery of its climax ; the power of good and the force of evil ; the woe and war of hearts ; the triumph of duty over vice, hate, and even love ; and throughout all, the conflict of emotions and events, the sympathetic influence of a woman’s tenderness ; and Fate —Fate and a woman’s heart, a woman’s heart and its hungei — combine to make “The Prisoner of Zenda” the most popular of all modern romances.