ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1592, 29 July 1916, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR” PICTURES. A particularly attractive programme has been arranged for the opening of “Our'’ Pictures at the Town Hall on Monday evening. Mr Smith informs ns that he has at In's command an unlimited supply of film from all the leading producers and intends screening no less than four complete changes of programme weekly. He has made satisfactory arrangements for such pictures as “Britain Prepared,” “Cabiria,” and all the latest Charlie Chaplin star productions. “Britain Prepared” will he screened on Monday and Tuesday, August 7th and Sth, and the others follow in due course. A special feature of Ihe opening programme on Monday is a star drama by the Edison Company, featuring the great favourite, Viola Dana, in “Children of Eve.” Henry Clay Madison, clerk and student, becomes acquainted with a woman of tin; world in his hoarding house. Under his influence she leaves the old life, but, wrapped in a wonderful love for him, she refuses to marry him, feeling that her past has made her unworthy. She sleals out of his life for ever, leaving him a message of her love and her sacrifice. The years pass, and we find Madison a man of affairs, with a Inst for money, and employing child labour in his factory for the sake of cheapness. Bert Madison, nephew and protege of the old man, spends his life in social uplift work, lie falls in love with a girl whom he meets in the slams. She is called “Eifty-tive Mamie.” Madison finds her out. Then comes tlie great disaster. The factory catches tire. In the holocaust, the lives of children are destroyed and Mamie is carried homo dying. What happens after is told graphically in the picture, but it makes Madison a changed man, who devotes his life to the welfare of his workmen and the abolition of childlabour. A splendid supporting programme includes; “The Ganmont Graphic,” “Cutcy ns fortune Hunter” (comedy), “Movements of Animals” (a most interesting science Jihn).