ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1574, 8 July 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ELINOR GLYN’S “VIEM”’ HER (AT ONE TIME) BITED BOOK, “THREE WEEKS.”

Elinor Clvn writes: “I feel now, when my “Throe Weeks” is to ho launched in a now land whore 1 have many sympathetic friends, Hint, owing to the misunderstanding and misrepresentation it received from nearly the entire press and a. section of the piddle in England, 1 would like to state my view of its meaning. (As 1 wrote, it, I suppose it could be believed 1 know something about that!) F"V me, “The Lady” was a deep study, the analysis of a strange Slav nature, who from circumstances and education and her general view of life was beyond the ordinary laws of morality, it; I were making the study of a tiger, I would not give it the attributes of a spaniel because the public, and I myself, might prefer a spaniel! I would still seek to portray accurately every minute instinct of that tiger to make a living picture. Thus, as you read, f want you to think of her as such a. study —a great splendid nature, full of the passionate realisation of primitive instincts, immensely cultivated, polished, blase. You must sec her at Lucerne obsessed with the knowledge of her horrible life with her brutal vicious husband, to whom she had been sacriticed for political reasons when almost a. child. She suddenly sees this young Englishman, who comes as an echo of somehting straight and true in manhood which in outward appearance, at all events, she Ims met in her youth in the person of her uncle Hubert. She perceives in him at once the soul sleeping there, and it produces in her a strong emotion. Then I want you to understand (he effect of love on them both. In her it rose from caprice to intense devotion, until the day at the farm when it readied Hie highest point — a desire to reproduce his likeness. How with the most passionate physical enfotion, her mental influence upon Paul was ever to raise him to

vast aims and noble desires for future greatness. In him Jove opened the windows of his soul so that lie saw the line in everything. The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth

for worms. Tbey have no eyes to sec (tod’s sky with the stars in it. To such “Three Weeks” will bo but a sensual record of 2>assion. But those who do look up beyond the material will understand the deep, pure love, and the soul in it, and they will realise that io such a nature as ‘‘the Lady's” passion would never have ran riot until it was sated —she would have daily grown nobler in her desire lo make her Loved One’s son a splendid man. The initial screening of the pictnrisalion of “Three Weeks” was witnessed by a large audience last night. The picture will be repeated to-night.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY,

The change of programme at the Town Hall on Monday includes the Majestic Company's four-reel feature, “A Yankee from the West.” The story concerns the life of young Milford, a college boy who was sent West in search of his life work, loses a favourable star!, through careless methods of living, and is led to stealing from his superior ollicer by a rival for the affections of a pretty young girl newly arrived from Sweden. Her native purity defends her from the rival, and her influence over young Milford is instrumental in bringing him to a proper sense of his responsibilities, and they start on a happy career’, the telling of which makes a charming story. An outstanding feature of the play is the individual performances of every member of the cast. The supporting items are excellent numbers.