ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1603, 26 August 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR PICTURES.” TO-NIGHT! A photoplay of exceptional merit, will be included in a tip-top programme at the Town Hall to-night, “The Stolen Voice,” featuring Rob-, erl \)’a rwick. If you wore a $5,000 a week tenor, a noted celebrity to whom the respect and envy of men, the administration and love of women, came without the seeking, and if you suddenly were robbed of your voice—your one priceless possession—what would you do? Gerald Dorville became a motion picture actor. The man, who, driven by jealousy, had exercised his strange power to strip the singer of his unique and glorious faculty happened to witness a Him performance of his former rival. As a result, in a, manner remarkable, Uorvilie's voice relumed to him. During his days of despair, Dorville learned values. Rearrived at the height from which misfortune had cast him, he was able properly to discriminate between the shallow affectation of a glamour-loving woman who lionised him. in his days of honour and condemned him in his humiliation, and the steadfast, unquenchable devotion of the simple, single-hearted girl who loved the man —with or without (he voice. Also there will be screened a realistic war picture, depicting the destruction of a German blockhouse, and other supporting items of interest. MONDAY (One Night Only).

The management takes great pleasure in announcing that the world’s most popular picture actress, Mary Pickford, will appear at the Town Hall on Monday next, for one night, only, in a photo version of the celebrated play, “Mistress Nell.” In “Mistress Nell,” by George C. Haxelton jnr., the famous drama of the daring days of gay King Charles 11., and formerly the starring vehicle of Henrietta Cardsman, Mary Pickford plays the title role of pretty Nell Gwyn, the whimsical, impulsive, and piquant little favourite of the public and the monarch of England, whose bravery and wit save her Royal lover from treachery at home and abroad, and free him at the same time from the toils of a designing woman, who tries to sleal his heart from Nell, as well as to wrest his kingdom from him to give to France. It is Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth, who undertakes this double plot, but little Nell Gwyn (the actress) cleverly sees through the plans of tin; siren Duchess, and sets to work to protect her loved King. After angering and baffling Louise in a score of counter-idols, “Mistress Nell,” from a hiding place, sees the signing of certain

papers which are to place England in (he hands of France if they reach their destination. This Nell determines shall never he, and in the guise of a young blade of fashion, she wins I lie confidence of Louise, and is herself given documents to deliver. Needless to say, the papers are never delivered, except to Ihe King of England, together with a missive f'n >m Louise, which, intended for .France's monarch, plainly reveals her duplicity, flow Xell further outwits the vengeful woman and other malicious and enviou--enemies of her love and happiness, and wins hack her Royal lover’s heart and trust, is dramatically developed in this dashing romance of the swash-hnekiing period of hearts and swords, and Miss Pickford leads a new and vivid beauty to “Mistress Xell,” of whom it was said, “England would be worse limn

a Puritan funeral williout her.”