ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1612, 19 September 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR PICTURES.” A programme worthy of special mention was screened at the Town Hall last night, and Will bo repeated to-night. An outstanding feature of the programme is a particularly fine naval picture, entitled “Friend and Foe on the High Sea.” In this impressive picture the German fleet is shown skulking in (he Keil harbour, and also in mimic action, a proceeding which was meant to allay the wrath of the German people at the inactivity of Von Tirpitz’s naval forces. In addition there is shown Britain’s powerful (leet sweeping the ocean, and protecting the merchant vessels from danger as they sai i fn mi port to port. Another star item is a delightful sentimental comedy-drama, “The Bachelor's Romance.” This picture has won for its author the fame of having written the best sentimental comedy drama ever screened. It is 4,500 ft. long, and every reel is redolent of human nature at its best. John Emerson portrays the role of David Holmes, a lovable ami eccentric bachelor, who runs at (he sight of a woman, only to be-tripped head over heels in a violent love altair with his young and pretty ward, Sylvia, who secretly loves him. Unaware of their reciprocal affections, and believing they love in vain, each heart is broken and miserable, until, in a very unexpected and dramatic climax, both the bachelor and the girl learn for the first time of their mutual love WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. “ALWAYS IN THE WAY.” The management of Our Pictures lakes pleasure' in announcing a really (ip-top programme for Wednesday and Thursday, including a Metro production featuring the fascinating screen personality, Mary Miles Minter, a picturisation of the song classic, “Always in the Way. Winfred North, a rich lawyer, through’stress of business, neglects his five-year-old daughter. Ihe daughter, since the death of its mother, has complained of neglect, and continually asks for its mother. With no children playmates, no one to caress her, she provokes her father into marrying a widow with two children. Tins widow discovers that the lawyer has left all his money to his own child. The step-mother contrives to dispose of her stepchild, and succeeds. A missionary couple, about to leave for Africa, adopts the child. She grows up in Africa. At.the age of fifteen she is a lit.le missionary who spreads kind words among the savage natives until the natives kill her foster parents. after which she makes her way hack to New York. The young prospector, who has 1 alien in hive with hei, and whose allecttion is reciprocated, follows her to New York. -Through his kindness to a former friend of her step-mother, he learns of her true parentage, and forthwith seeks her father and acquaints him with the step-mother’s crime. In the meantime, the girl is an employee of a (lower store, and has met her father several limes without having been aware of it. After many tribulations, her sweetheart finds her and takes her to her father’s house. The father denounces the step-mother, and all ends well. As an additional attraction to the foregoing star film, Miss Doris Signal has kindly consented to sing the song, “Always in the Way,” while the picture is being screened.