ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1575, 11 July 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PULLER’S PICTURES

An excellent programme was screened at Fuller’s last night, headed by “A Yankee from the West,” an adaptation of Opie Read’s popular novel, featuring Wallace Read and Signe Aueu, in a stirring drama of man’s redemption. The story concerns the life of young Milford, a college boy who was sent West in search of his life work, loses a favourable start through careless methods of living, and is led to stealing from his superior officer by a. rival for the affections of a. pretty young girl newly arrived from Sweden. Her faith in him shames him into a. sturdy self redemption that enables him to make a winning fight. How he is made to realise his responsibilities and start on a happy career with the girl who loves him is a charming story, excellently told.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

A feature of Wednesday’s change is a star drama, by the Vita-graph Company, “The Tigress.” The tigress is the wife of a master crook, fearless and strong as a man. With all the ferocity of the jnngle beast, whose nature is reflected in her, she desires her offspring. To satisfy those instincts of motherhood she steals the child of a wealthy man, protects and rears the child with till the passionate love of which she is capable, but keeps him in ignorance of the darker side of her life —her career of evil as the leader of the gang of crooks whom she rules with a rod of iron. The boy grows up believing the tigress to be the only fond mother she had always been to him. He becomes engaged to a sweet girl whom his real father has adopted. They elope, and his mother gives his bride an emerald pendant. Jim Harrigan, a detective, sees Judith wearing the gift while riding in a street car, and recognises it as part of a recent robbery. Harrigan follows up the trail and it leads to the home of the tigress, and finds her in a magnificent mansion. Then there arc some highly exciting, tense scenes, and the climax loaves one admiring the self-sacrifice of (he mother and hating the man who first brought evil upon her. The supporting items contain equally entertaining numbers.