ENTERTAINMENTS. “OUR PICTURES.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1666, 25 January 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“OUR PICTURES.”

The programme ,-creened at the Town Hall pictures hist evening was of an entertaining nature, a.ml is headed by an unusually strong and attractive drama, entitled “The Secret Orchard.” The story tells of how, while on a visit to the country, Diana (Blanche Sweet), a young girl just out of the convent, is wronged by the Duke of Chinny. Later, her dying mother gives her up to the Duchess of Chinny, a very charitable woman, to care for. As Diana enters Inc house, she sees her seducer in the person of the husband. of her benefactress. The Duke, in order to prevent his wife from suffering-, lies bountifully and extensively. Lieut. Dodd, brother of the Duchess, falls in love with Diana, but she, though returning his affection, refuses to marry him. The Duke refuses to tell Dodd why she cannot marry him, and Diana at last discloses the reason. Dodd challenges him to a duel, in which the Duke is mortally wounded. Before dying he begs for, and receives, Hie forgiveness of his wife, and the picture closes with the promise of Diana to marry the Lieutenant, who has fought for her tumour. The programme is completed by the inclusion of a good number of the Gaumont Graphic, a scenic depicting winter scenes at Stockholm, and a film entitled “Mr Jack, His Hat and His Goat.” This programme will be repealed to-night. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. The change of: programme tor Friday and Saturday includes three star items of considerable merit, entitled respectively “A Woman's (Share," “From the Dregs," ami “The Taking of Stingaree,” the latter being the sixth episode of the popular serial picture. “A Woman’s tShare" is a drama of an unusual theme, and tells of Silas Hummel amt Alartha, his wife, striking examples of the tight-listed, miserly and narrow-minded type of farmer. Alartha gets up before the chickens, prepares breakfast by lamplight, and slaves all day for her husband. He is a sharp trader, and often makes considerable prolit in stuck dealing, hut every cent, of it goes in to the hank. Silas accepts an offer by a Western prospector to join him in a hum for gold at Death Valley, and, his greed thoroughly aroused, leaves immediately, after telling his wife to he sure and mind Hie stock. Silas gets lost in Deatli Valley, and on the scorching desert bis terrible predicament brings home to him what a miser he has always been. Martha, hearing be is dead, is about to divide the comfortable fortune they bad saved up by giving half of it to charily and enjoying the rest, when her husband returns alive and well. A tense scene follows, in which Silas renounces the gold lust for ever, and wins back his wife's love and respect. The remaining items of the programme will be found very entertaining, and should prove a very popular entertainment.