ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1639, 18 November 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

‘■'OUR PICTURES.” A programme oC quite a special and attractive nature will bo screened at the Town Hall this afternoon and evening, including a, 3,000 ft. sensational dramatic, film, “An Example.” Other supporting pictures are of a, specially interesting nature, including comedies, dramas, seenics, and the latest topical gazette. “THE DAWN OF A TO-MORROW” Not since “Rags” and “Tess” has little Mary had a role so well suited to her genius as in this story of a waif of Condon's slums. Tt is a sublime drama of human suffering and hope interspersed with Ihosq touches of delicious humour that, only Miss Pickford can so daintily present. “The Dawn of a To-morrow,” which was one of the most successful and far-reaching plays that ever saw the. legitimate stage, is another decided triumph from the. Famous Players. It is a sm prising triumph, too, because one would think that without the at tractive cockney language of the spoken play its dramatic force would be lowered, but the producing company exhibited great wisdom in selecting Mary Pickford to interpret the principal role of Clad, the child of (he London slums. The low English dialect is gone, to be sure, but in place of that we are given the inimitable expressions which Mary Pickford, and only Mary Pickford, can affect. (Had, the little girl of the London slums, is the idol of all who come in contact with her. She is loved by a crook, a man whom she finally persuades to quit bad habits and lead a straight life. And. then there is the wealthy financier, who, despaired of by the physicians, seeks oblivion in the slums. Ife is saved by Cllad, and learns a new altitude of life. Dandy, the reformed crook - , is accused by his old pals of theft and murder. The nephew of the rich man is the only one who can clear Dandy’s name, having met him on the street at the time of the murder. Glad goes to him to plead. He attempts to take liberties with her, but is prevented by the arrival of Dandy himself. At last Glad so shames the reprobate nephew before his uncle that he realises his wrong and exonerates Dandy. The situations of the story alternate throughout the production between the pathetic and the happy. Touches of real comedy crop out here and there, and touch-, es that bring tears to the eyes. The simple faith that Glad holds in God, her belief in prayer, and her unconscious discrimination of what is right and what is wrong, all these (Lings, and many more, unite to make the picture an almost unequalled attraction. There is also a good supporting programme in addition to the foregoing star item.