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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1668, 30 January 1917, Page 3

TO-NIGHT!

A most ('(impelling attraction will be Mr Philip .Hylton's spectacular production at the Town Hall this evening of “The Waybaeks.” Based on those delightful Australian stories of Henry Fleleher, the comedy strikes an original and refreshing note in characterisation. The opening scenes, laid on the farm at. Dingo Flat are - drawn with a powerful pen, and some highly amusing comedy situations are introduced. The Waybaeks are delighted at the prospect of a. visit to Sydney, but disillusion quickly follows on I heir arrival in the Metropolis. Their (roubles and tribulations begin from the time they strike George Street, and before long Dads has been relieved by confidence men of some of the money so hardly earned on the selection. They take a, furnished house in Balmain, hut are. driven into a state of frantic exasperation by bottle-ohs, sewing machine men and. other blessings of high civilisation. The actions and peculiarities of their neighbours in burrowing household I rides are beyond human endurance, and dually in sheer self-defence they return whence they came, K present indications count for anything, a big house will welcome the performance. “OUR. PICTURES.” WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. The picture pi’ograimue to be exhibited at the Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday evenings will he headed by a strong and virile drama entitled “Hate, or The Aryan," the story of which is as follows: —Steve Denton (W. S. Hart.) rides into the town of Yellow Ridge with a money-belt full to bursting. His wealth has been earned almost with his heart’s blood out in the desert. That, however, does not matter to the gamblers in the town, who arc determined to get it away from him. So they set Trixie, the most voluptuous siren of the place, to entice him to the roulette table. At the moment a telegram comes, saying that Sieve's mother is dying, and for him to come at once. He bids Trixie read it, and she lies to him concerning its contents. In the morning Steve, with every penny lost, learns his mother is dead. Wild with rage, he shoots up the place, and carries Trixie away on ids horse. Enter, Steve has established the "town of Hale" far oil' in the wilds of the desert, with, his mine as the centre. Trixie, the merest wreck of a woman, is spending her life in bitter atonement for her treachery. No other woman is allowed in the place. One day a train of prairie-schooners with a hand of oiiee-happy Mississippi farmers, in search of gold, loses its wny in the desert. A delegation goes to the town of Hate to beg water, food and shelter for tliewomeu. Denton turns them mil, and sternly tells swoop down mid despoil them of everything they possess, including their women. One little girl (Bessie Love) among the farmers refuses to believe that the white leader of the wild Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds, lias forgotten the code of his race. Ho, all alone, she creeps away from the camp and enters the town of desperate men. She meets Denton. In her he sees only one more victim upon which he may vent his terrible vengeance. The continuation of the story is told in a thrilling and vivid manner, and provides the biggest thrill of all in a remarkable iiiui. The suporting items include a beautiful scenic, a Mutt and Jeff comedy and a war topical entitled "The Alpine Troops in Alsace.”