ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1564, 15 June 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES,

The initial screening of “The Derby Winner” at the Town Hall last night, attracted a large and highly appreciative audience. Other items of the programme are of a varied and entertaining nature, and constitute a really good programme, which will lie repeated to-night. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. Au outstanding feature of an excellent programme for Friday is a four act Alutual master play, entitled, “Up from the Depths.” This wonderful play tears aside the veil of prudery und pretence. It is a throbbing story of a woman’s error and a man’s injustice. Dare Vincent is a happy girl, who meets a man posing as a great missionary. She hours him speak at one of the great open-air meetings of the Revivalists. He sees her and mentally marks her as a fair and innocent prey for his rapactiy. He speaks to her that afternoon, disguising his real intentions under the cloak of “adviser,” and through his professions of love induces the girl to leave for the city with him. What chance had a good, pure-living girl against the oily sentimental speeches of a practised hypocrite? A year later he leaves Iter, a mother, but not a wife. He goes to a bigger city, and meets with great successes. Dare Vincent, the once thoughtless, happy child, now an outcast from her home, decides to follow him to New York, where his fame is increasing by leaps and hounds, and people think he, is a great and good man. She now learns that he is married. In New York she tries to see him, but the hand of society intervenes. It allows him to rise, but forces her to sink. One day that hand is raised for a minute. Then there is a conflict wherein all the evil of the hypocrite asserts itself, and the latent good within an abandoned soul rises to the surface —a conflict which is, too, a battle of the sexes, and a climax of terrific force. The supporting items ai'e : “Allies in the East,” “Botha-Land, South Africa,” “Waifs of the Sea,” “Australian Gazette,” “Pressing Business,” and “Topical Budget.”