AMUSEMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11652, 22 August 1916, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

MR ALLEN DOONE’S I RETURN. TO-NIGHT. Readers will be pleased to learn that the Irish character actor and Irish singing comedian, after an absence of over 12 months, will make his re-appearance at the Marion Town Hall to-night, when he will open in a delightful comedy drama Molly Bawn. The Australasian rights have been secured by Mr Doone at a very big expense, and this picturesque comedy drama introduced for the first time into New Zealand has received the firm grip of friendly approval ,aud made innumerable friends all over Australia and it is certain to become very popular in New Zealand with playgoers who appreciate simplicity, combined with beauty and wholesome stories of everyday life. The Allen Doone Company are household words in the play-going community. Molly Bawn is perhaps the most successful of the modern Irish poetical stories; it comes to us largely earmarked with a record of productions in Australia, untouched by any previous successful Irish plays. The box' plan is on view at Mogridge’s. , MARTON CINEMA. TO-MORROW NIGHT. The Cinema management have secured a first-class programme for .to-morrow night, including a famous Metro film, “The High Road.” Thestoiy is as Page, after having lived for some time with Allen Wilson as his mistress, suddenly realises the offence she has committed against society, and decides to leave him. She writes him a.letter telling of her intentions, but he returns before she can put her plans into action. While Wilson is unpacking his bags, wine is served, but Mary refuses to drink any. Mr Maddox, who has accompanied Wilson to his home, upbraids her for what he considers her parade of virtue. and Mary slaps his face. Mr Maddox then leaves the house. Mary tells Wilson she is going to leave him, and he, for the first time realising that be loves her, tries to dissuade her, hut finally, being convinced of her sincerity, he allows her to depart. Mary secures a position in a shirtwaist factory, not knowing that it is the one owned by Maddox. Wilson learns of Mary’s whereabouts, and visits her hoping to induce her to return, but she firmly refuses. Maddox, endeavouring to raduce expenses, cuts the girls’ wages twenty per cent., and Mary, assuming the leadership, approaches the manager, Mr Cochran, and threatens a strike.

Cochran then arranges a fake riot to discourage the girls. After the riot Cochran engages a number of thugs to-intimidate the girls, and when the police arrive the thugs attack them, thus creating the im pression that the girls are anarchistic. Cochran’s plan works out all right until one of the thugs shoots a policeman and is captured by Mary, who courageously nolds him until the police arrive. At the station house he confesses that Cochran hired him to do the shooting. The next day Mary visits the Mayor of the town and pleads with him on behalf of the girls, and discovers that the Mayor is her old sweetheart whom she had refused marry on account of her infatuation tor- Wilson. She tells him everything, and he agrees to help her. Maddox, learning of the Mayor’s sympathy for the girls, re-establishes the former wage scale, and the girls return to work. That night a tremendous fire breaks out in the factory with tragic results, but the story ends happily with the joining of the Mayor and Mary Page. '