ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1571, 1 July 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FULLER’S PICTURES,

TO-NIGHT,

The programme to be shown tonight at Fuller’s is of a particularly high standard, and includes two star pictures besides a full compliment of supporting items, consisting of scenic, topical and comic pictures. The outstanding feature is “The Mysterious, Man of the Jungle.” Practically the whole of the line from Cape to Cairo is embodied in the scenic surroundings of the narrative. The story opens on an American farm where the daughter of the farmer falls in love with one of the hands. Her father threatens to hill the young man if he is seen talking to the girl. One day he starts to carry out the threat, and during the struggle the revolver is discharged, killing the farmer. The girl, seeing that the cii’cumstanees are against her sweetheart, urges him to fly, which he does. He takes a passage on a steamer bound for West South Africa. The ship is burned at sea, but he manages to reach an almost uninhabited part of the coast. Here, through some unknown power, he obtains a strange sway over animals. The girl reads of the loss of the steamer with all hands, and, in order to seek forgetfulness, joins the African Missionary Society. Her gentle nature wans her many friends amongst the natives, and also one enemy. The girl is delivered into the notorious Sultan Murad’s hands, and is thrown into an open space amongst a herd of wild animals. In the meantime, the man has been captured by the Sultan’s animal hunters. He manages to escape, and wanders into the cave where the wild beasts are kept for the sport of the Sultan, and when the girl is thrown to them she is rescued from their savagry by the man she has given up for dead. Also a wonderful production by the Cines Company, “The Daughter of Darkness.” This sensational story concerns the exploits of Miss Emilie, one of the most daring women, who adopted crime as a profession.