ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1602, 24 August 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

‘■OUR PICTURES.” TO-NIGHT! “A SURMA RiNE PIRATE.” Another stupendous programme will he screened at the '(’own Hall to-night, in “A Submarine Pirate,” lea tilling Syd. Chaplin. .Film fans have been apt to regard Syd. Chaplin as a comedian who owed ins position to the reputation of his brother. “The Submarine Pirate” to he shown at the Town Hall tonight, dispels all such .suspicious, it is a. great; comic film, a, riot of diverting incidents, hairbreadth escapes, delicious tomfoolery. It is another wonder of production by Alack ScnnelL, and the photography makes the pictures clear as day. There is a wild chase over the rooftops of skyscrapers that: is worth a Him in itself, and the same applies In the comedy scenes in the hotel, where Chaplin, a waiter, wrests the secret of the submarine from I,ho two [liralimit guests, and, clad in an admiral’s uniform, assumes command himself. There isn’t a, dull moment or a still one from start to finish, and the work of the real U.S. Navy submarine submerging and emerging makes the Jilin interesting, even to those serious-mind-ed Puritans who regard laughter as a snare of the evil one. Jt is a Jihu after the best manner of the Keystone masterpieces, staged on a. scale of magnitude unknown fifteen months ago. An ambitious waiter overhears two inventors discussing a plan to blow up a Government battleship by means of a submarine that they have devised, stealing I heir plans, the waiter has some hair-raising escapes from sudden death while dodging pursuit over high buildings. He dons an admiral s uniform, goes down lo the water-side and whistles three times, which is the signal, lie is soon taken out lo (he submarine, and on siiowing his papers is put in command. He sees the officer pulling various levers and imitates him. He nearly swamps the crew by his efforts, hut the officer sets the boat right again. The waiter plans to hold up a steam ship and steals the gold it is carrying. The captain of the ship manages to send a wireless for help, but his vessel is destroyed by a submarine. The waiter has lost the key, and cannot submerge his craft. It results in the destruction of the submarine, and the last sight of the pirate waiter shows him with his head in a shark’s mouth.