ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1562, 10 June 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER'S PICTURES.

To-night's programme til (he. Town Hall is an exeept ionally strong one, containing’ two star pictures, besides u special war topical, topical budget, and Australian Hazel(e, with Hie usual complement of comic items. The outstanding .feu(nre of the programme is a mysterious Fuslern drama entitled, “The Avenging Hand." an exceedingly clever production, in which Hie mysterious hand plays un important part. Another lea litre is a Vitagruph production. “One Performance Only," lea luring the old favourite, Maurice Costello. MONDAY AND TCESDAY. Monday's change of programme includes Hie Selig- Company's star feature, starring Kathleen Williams. in “The Carpel from Hagdud." This is u story of ancient Bagdad, famed in song and story, of soothsayers, of erystall-gazers, and of how a precious prayer-rug was boldly snatched from Ihe innermost shrine of a sacred mosque, passed from hand to hand, and of how, in its travels, the rug imperilled the lives of two men and it beautiful young woman. An exciting romance of plot and counterplot ; of the fatalism of (lie Far Eiisl ; of caravans and of an oasis in Hie desert. There is a Sahara sand storm ; a conspiracy on (he part of :tn international hand of (“rooks ; and it remained for Fortune, the innocent girl, to dually solve Hu* intrigue. Over till there is tin* reminiscent (ouch of the mosque's gulden domes, the glittering slurs of the temples, (he hind of Allah in all its Oriental splendour. And Mahomed, guardian of the suered carpet, who has grimly followed the emblem of his faith, through storm and stress, and at the ending is resigned to defeat. Prostrating himself towards .Mecca, he mutters the incantation of his mist ; “What is to be, will be !" The supporting items ure all high-class numbers.