AMUSEMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 11 August 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

'NIOBE” AT THE LYCEUM, | BULLS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12. One of the greatest theatrical successes of the last decade was Panlton’s delightful comedy - f’rama “Niobe. ”, In Australia aud New Zealand the never-to-be-foigotten Brough-Boucicault f Company played it on many occasions, and among the happy memories of old playgoers are Mrs Brough as “Niobe” and the late “Bob” Brough as Peter Amos Dunn. The Famous Players Co. hare, it is said, most cleverly adapted the play to the screen, and have selected one of the most beautiful, charming and talented actresses of to-day. Miss Hazel Dawn, for the part of “Niobe,” the Goddess of Tears, who after three thousand years as a statue comes to life when entangled with the electric wires in the house, of the staid business man Peter Amos Dunn. The complications that ensue, and the difficulties fund embarrassments that beset Dunn in trying to explain the presence of the unsophisticated halfclad beautiful young woman, and his ludicrous but well-meant efforts to get Niobe'clothed more in compliance with modern and modest fashions make one of the brightest, most fascinating and cleverest comedy dramas of modern days. The picture is the chief item of the now programme to be shown at the Lyceum on Saturday. The balance of the programme consists of a Vita drama “Good in the Worst of Us” ; a bright‘Beauty’ comedy “Deserted at the Auto”; and the latest “Pathe Gazette.” Special programme of musical gems.