ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1598, 15 August 1916, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE NORWOODS

TO-NIGHT!

To-night, at the Town Hall, Professor Norwood, the American hypnotist, will be seen for one night only, and it is safe to predict that he will receive the same hearty welcome hero as at other plaees in New Zealand. A Sydney paper says he runs a veritable laughter factory, and in the present time of gloom llu* possibility of two and si-ha If hours of •laughter is looked forward to as a rare treat indeed. Professor Norwood’s latest success is a new and interesting scene he calls the Gorman Retreat, and where it Ims been shown it has created a great amount of applause and admiration. Such interesting facial expressions as he brings about upon the faces of his subjects does away with all doubt as lo the genuineness of the work, and at the same time shows the vast, possibilities of hypnotic suggestion. This will he Ihe last opportunity of seeing Professor Norwood, as he returns to America shortly, where he will devote his time in future to the treatment of diseases by hypnotic suggestion, a held that has been opened by the present war, as it is being successfully used at. present in many of the hospitals at the front. Professor Norwood admits returned soldiers free, and all who wish Io enjoy a pleasant evening should l)e present. No other entertainment is so full of laughs, in fact n might lie called one long laugh, for at no time during the evening is the house quiet. Popular prices will prevail, and the plan is at the usual place. “OUR PICTURES. 1 ' On Wednesday evening, at the Town Hall, will he screened a magnificent Arabian story, “The Arab.” The story concerns the wild sou of a Sheik, who, after robbing a caravan in the desert, has his horse taken from him and bestowed on a. stranger. Vowing death against the man ho linds astride his equine favourite, he finds it in the possession of a pretty mission teacher, to whom the Turkish governor has presented it, after commandeering from the owner, lie takes his horse and leaves the girl to walk home. Now, about this time the Messenger of Death lo all Christians is sent out and delivers the message to the Turkish governor, who starts the massacre. .Securing the mission teaclier, he pretends that ho will protect her. Just as the girl realises the brutal Turk’s purpose, and is protecting herself against his will, the young Bedouin rescues her. After tins lie announces that he will become Christian, provided the lady lie lias rescued will become his wife. The play is full of thrilling situations, and the end is brought to a most artistic finish . Also: A splendid number of the popular “Pathe Gazette,” and a brilliantly humorous Vitagraph comedy, “The Lure of (he Window.” THURSDAY. Thursday's change of programme includes a particularly strong film, “The Circular Path,” an intensely emoliona! photodrama j in three acts. It is exceptionally well adapted for the genius of Henry B. Walthall, who takes the leading part. Warda Howard, who plays opposite Mr Walthall, is strong in emotional roles, and the two working together make a photoplay of such strength and dramatic intensity that it holds every spectator spellbound. Mr Walthall, as the Rev. Darwin Kirby, is deeply in love with a given to all gaieties of life. She refuses to devote herself lo the duties of a minister’s wife, and linally the preacher gives up his pulpit, for the love of the girl. But he has not been trained in paths of the world, and fails to make good. Einally he goes west for a new start, leaving his wife behind. Lonely, she takes up with an old sweetheart and spends much of her lime' with him. The western venture does not prove much profitable, and sick and desolate the former pastor returns east. He finds his wife in a cafe with the other man. Goaded to fury by jealousy he shoots his rival. Thinking he has killed him, he hides in the shims, where he drops to the lowest depths of degradation. But one day he hears that the man he shot is not dead. Calling together all his willpower, he determines to mend his ways. He makes a man of himself and re-enters the ministry. Then he seeks his wife he still loves. She, tired and sick of the consequences of her gay life, consents to begin anew, and the two start together on the right path. Also; “Lumber Industry,” “Topical Budget,” “One Against One” (comedy), “Climbing the Great Pyramid,” “Dare Devil Harry,” and “John Bull’s Sketch Book.”