ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1644, 30 November 1916, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR PICTURES.” “THE DRAGON.” Tin* programme for the two .sessions at the Town Hall on Saturday next promises to lie very attractive, and is headed hy the World-Equit-able live-part drama, “The Dragon," a picture' which has enjoyed wide popularity in the principal centres. The story of “The Dragon" is rather oil; the beaten track of photoplay subjects, but it gives tin; producer a chance to screen some verv line scenes of New York, its residences and business places, and the manner in which (he interior of many of the business houses of the metropolis is transferred to the screen is generally deserving of

praise. Tin. l narrative is of a young girl at home* on a vacation from a. convent, where she lias lived since infancy. She is Lohl by tier father' that her mol Iter has been lured u- : way from Itiin by an infamous man known as “The Dragon." who lives on fifth Avenue. The daughter is of the very innocent type, and she makes up her romantic mind to restore her mother to her father’s home. Her adventures are of the sensational order, but she manages to escape the clutches ol the sensualists, till she, by accident, encounters the man who had lured her mother from home. Here a big scene is enacted, and the child is saved by the appearance of her mother. Eventually the appeal of the daughter to her father causes a reconciliation between husband and wife. The play is gorgeously produced, and contains many scenes that will appeal to the feminine mind, principally the fashionable millinery emphorium scene. The rest of the programme is made up of the “Pathe Gazette,” and a laughable farce, in which Mr and Mrs Sidney Drew are featured, “The Home Cure.”