ENTERTAINMENTS.
FULLER’S PICTURES
The Town Hall was liberally patronised last night to witness the initial screening of “The Simla - mite,” a vivid and forceful representation of Alice and Claude Askew's superb novel of that, title, a drama of acute realism, with a climax at the highest point ot lemsity. The supporting items form an ideal evening’s pleasure, and include a gorgeous sceni<‘, "North Wales, the British Tyrol” ; an exhilirating and laughable* farce-comedy, “Help! Help !” and Ihe latest European Gazelle.
WLDXKSDAY AND THLKSDAY. Tilt* tiji't? of programme ill fuller's for Wednesday and Thursday is <d' n particularly high standard, fea(uriug as a special altraction a wonderful and compelling drama, featuring Thomas \\. Boss, “The Onlv Sou. ’ Thomas Brainherd's (diildren, Her! rude and Thomas, were horn while I heir parents lived in a log cabin in the mountains. Braiuherd becomes a financial power in i\ew York. Tie is so absorbed in big business (hat he only has time to send his family money. Absolutely forgetting his family duties, ho toils on and on. llis wife, alone and melancholy, is fascinated by an artist, who sees a chance of making money from the wife of a magnate. Mrs Braiuherd consents to “sit.” Luckily for her, the husband of a, former victim shoots the artist before he does more harm. Braiuherd, hearing of (he affair, turns his wife out of the house. His son, a worthless spendthrift, sides with his mother. How his mother reforms the son, and kindles his ambition into a. red hot (lame, which enables him to become rich, and eventually to restore eonlidence and love in his father’s heart and to win Mrs lira inherd back to his home, makes one of the most thrilling and delightful stories of the screen. The supporting items are : “.Modern and Ancient Koine,” “The latest Hazel le," “The .Jungfrau Railway,” and “The fox Trot finesse,” a Vitagraph comedy.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1566, 20 June 1916, Page 3
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313ENTERTAINMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1566, 20 June 1916, Page 3
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