ENTERTAINMENTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 545, 2 July 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

POPULAR PICTURES, ODDFEL-

LOWS* HALL.

The usual change 01' picture programme will be presented at the Popular Pictures in the Oddfeilows Hall to night. The star picture is "The World for Salt," and is a piclurisation of Sir Gilbert. Patkcrs famous novel, ' The vVorld for Sale. . The story breathes tne very essence of the out-of-doorS. and'the charm of gipsy lore, and also deals with the "We of three men for a beautiful "irl. It is a marnilicent production? nnd a picture "that on no account should be mi-ised by the piclure loving fraternity of Pukekohe.

I.YCEUM PINCTURES.

SATURDAY NIGHT

Jerome K. Jerome's won tier-play with a world message, "The Passing of the Third Floor Back," with Sir J. Forbes Robertson, the greatest iving English actor, in the title role, will be screened at the Premier Hall 'tomorrow (Saturday) evening. This is a dramatic classic with the power and charm of a great personality. The theme of this well-known play has boon tic basis of sermons all over the world. The greatest orator cannot visualise the story as thi picture j does. The characters -the giil, the bully, the shrew, the artist, the satyr, the 'schemer, the cheat, the snob, the cad, the drudge, and the strangerare all wonderfully true to type. A gazette raid a comedy complete the programme. "THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG." Well-meaning people who know nothing whatever about the class of entertainment the public wants, and which the proprietors of pictures must pei force supply, cry out for educational films—which the public does not want. Last week a very fine educational film, "The Land We Live In," wfts screened at Pukekohe to only half a house at the showing for adults, but on Wednesday night of this week an entirely different sort of a picture, "The Man They Could Not Hang," drew one of the largest picture houses ever seen in Pukekohe. And, curiously enough, the people who clamour for educational films never attend the screening of such, but generally turn up to witness other sorts of pictures. But to quit moralising and get to our muttons, "The Man They Could Not Hang", was an absolute astonisher to most people. Despite the gruesomeness of 1 he tit!?, the picture was a beautiful one, noble in sentiment, rich in >cenery, and altogether uplifting in tone. Certainly, there were two ";rim scenes, but neither of these was tragic beyond what might be included in any average drama picture. The life of John Lee was exemplary, his love experiences distinctly elevating, and lasting all through his terrible ordeals. The true history of this case is that John Lee was wrongly , found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged, but the gallows, though they acted perfectly with two bags' of sand of the man's weight, \ refused three times when they tried I i.o hang John Lee. Twenty-three years ; afterwards, all of which time Lee ' was in prison, his sentence having ! been commuted to one of penal ser- ; vitude for life, another man, when on his death-bed, confessed to the 1 crime, John Lee was set free, and ' granted 7.0(H) compensation by the British Government, and now owns u ' hotel in Devonshire. He is happily married to the woman who believed » in his innocence right through, and I the union is blessed with one child. > Far from being sordid, the picture f is entirely an elevating one.

SKATING.

This afternoon and evening: IJsua sessions.

Monday next: Afternoon and even ing.

Tuesday next: At 8 p.m., presenta iion of prizes. Tugof-war, gents, tug-of war boys; tug-of-war, ladies.