ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1628, 24 October 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR PICTURES.” In the new change of programme to be submitted at the Town Hall tomorrow evening, a picture of an unusually creditable conception of drama lie perfection, unmistakably the highest ideals of screen art, entitled “Tiie Warning,” bolds foremost position, featuring America’s most eminent tragedian, Henry Kolker, who plays the role of the “man” (Robert Denman). Denman meets the woman who smiles, succumbs to her wiles, loses in's place, and is laughed at by her when she sees him down and out. His friends leave him, Ids wife divorces him, he becomes a beggar, and dies in the glitter. His soul goes into tin* depths, which make it recoil in fear,

and meets others who have been slaves to vice and indulgence. At last it eat reals its Mailer for one more chance, ami how the prayer is heard drives home tin' great lesson of “'file Warning.” For the production of “The Warning,” Director Edmond Lawrence and a company of players journeyed to mammoth caves of Kentucky, and while there singed a number of scenes representing tin; experience of the victim in Hades. Stalactites, stalagmites, grotesque land gyrations, and tin; myriad of queer freaks of underground tunnels and grottos, all lend their enchanting atmospherial detail to a series of weird and startling climaxes and dramatic situations. “Tito Warning” delivers a powerful moral, yet none of (lie “preachy” type. Four hundred grotesquelycostumed players are used in a number of lug scenes which are included in five stupendous acts and three hundred and seventeen scenes.