ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1569, 27 June 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PULLER'S PICTURES. A varied and excellent •programme with much in it that is refreshingly topical, was screened for the firsttime at the Town Hall last night. “The A wakening, ’’ a strong dramatic subject by the Vitagraph Company, lakes pride of place, with “Reincarnation,” an Edison production, a good second. Taken throughout, the programme is an exceptionally good one, and will lie repealed to-night. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. The star feature of Wednesday’s change is “Stolen Goods,"’ a. dramatic story of society and Hie war zone, featuring the brilliant emotional actress. Blanche Sweet. Alargarel Huntley is falsely arrested and imprisoned on a charge of having stoh'ii some lace, which was really stolen by a rich kleptomaniac, and by her put into Margaret's hag when detection seemed imminent. A fler this Margaret becomes a trained nurse, hut her prison record hampers her work, and she decides to go to Belgium lo do good if she can. In one of Hie emergency hospitals near the battle front she linds Helen, the kleptomaniac, whom she recognises. Helen is apparently killed, and Margaret, with the slrangi' logic of the feminine mind, argues ihai site will do no

more limn gel even by impersomi!ing the dead girl. She takes (he dead woman’s clothes and her tickets to America, which she reaches with a letter of introduction to a wealthy woman of California who had known the kleptomaniac's father. We are kept guessing constantly what is going to happen next, '"be (dimax is abrupt. Some of the scenes are realistic portrayals of Ibe war’.- mi-eries, but there an* so many oilier scenes (hat relieve tlie slory, and make il a memorable photo-play. The supporting’ items are: “War-depa ri are of the hih Iteiiiforeeiiieiils,” ••Hunting the Legal Pythons" (natural history), ‘‘Genoa, Italy" (scenic), “Welcome to Bohemia” (comedy), and “The Pa the Gazette.”