ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 April 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

V H E pu m m ALL COM PANY, "'■. .ICOR-THE BELGIANS. '■: TOWN HALL, TO-NIGHT. Miss Beatrice Day, leading lady with the Plimmer-Hail Company, told an interviewer a little of the patriotictheatrical scheme in which she is takliik a leading part, and of her previous experiences in .the-war and stage combinations. : ! She has now a deeper personal interest in the strife of nations, for her only; son I a' Clifton boy, is in thcv Titos of Court Officers' Training Corps, and in camp at.Berkhampsteaci .' She is wearing, too, the Queen's Meclar for services in South Africa, where the .Herbert Fleming .Company, of which she was'the leading lady, did much in cheering the lot of the soldiers as well as in raising la/jge sums for .'their benefit. . In Johannesburg, £2,000. was got in two nights by the company.: Except the gallery, which was reserved.for the soldiers, every seat, in the house was auctioned at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange,and citie ,JOX alono brought 180 guineas. The play was "The Bookmaker." While in Bloemfontein their forty-four Y.eeks , "internment,"as Miss Day termed it, with a laugh, for though one could set out, one could not return — --lie \ifuted- the Boer concentration c?,mps,-..and was struck, by the a rat ion-and care shown to the prison-* by the British.*; Probably Miss Day,, when her. South, African expert-, ence.-was over, never thought that the call-- -to,, the setv'j-cpy - of •.the Empire would'so socn again reach..her. But,. J like. many others of her. profession, she !"'lta*.- been busy In .patriotic * matters | these days,.. So Mi.s s Beatrice Day and Madame :Boeufva started, the copper collection, and found that they thus .xcuehed ,a clas s that in many cases did not even know what-the Red Cross nieant The sum,gathered was £SOO, and the scheme is now established in Melbourne, where the fund is ever increasing. But Miss Day did also much in encouraging recruiting, and for three weeks she, six times a day at four picture theatres, recited a stirring r'ecruitinjs pcem, with fine results. I Tlie serjgeant who stood beside her- ! ready to take down names of recruits, was; kept busy; • and now this latest ; idea is ft tour New Zealand with a I company which is tahiug only salari 'cs, the profits going to the Patriotic, j Fend. . ; .'•;■■■• •-■ WITHIN THE LAW. "Give them a Living .Chance,'? that ! is the cry which Bayard Vellier, they • author itff "' W-fthin the Law" ■ -sends: ringing into the 'oar's of the werld. It is the shop gii'i he champions in his plan and he voices his. plea through f the character of Mary Turner, a strong

-i".:-!;V ii i:i:!i- >v:i.:.;' !::;)•'■ i.uMit for {heft n' ; '-which : ' ! junoeont. - It id for-, v,™ i,Uxat Kh'e males the appeal ,to jfl .; 1 c 3'eft '.who*e hiirnfin itV co n si'st JM .jdrarijable assc.rAat?on£/tnrd ihsi V :■;..] whose a ;, rls'o'ii tor three .years so; that hei 'fellow employee's may, profit by the, 'example. On her way' to pay the pen :.''y exacted by tha law the girl cries . "Give, tiiQiii c living chance; We work line hours a'dav fcr. 0 cUdlaVs a wsa! ; &£•(?-:■>"'• y •:'.%ft" : i , .:.-':r. !.<: sfcul ;";>';'6'~ ; y6 : ir ■ Icnow- hoV*;T!"S / " J g'ri.| livo. Mc >£ OQyj<;e-:.-iroi'. don't. Three ot us in no re cm. doing cur own eve: 'a two 'burner : .ja'<; stove, dcins our ov. n weshnig and iroinnrj; :n th«.f,evcnm*>;s. Anj then the first thuc one of them •deals' it is often because she need; l eo'qtcr er &:-£s.e. .!.;::u;y rt Lijie that and ,c..u-.' of than 1 , do worse than steal, they started straight, too, and some of hcin'gsi so tired cf the whole grind." T~:i not, their. guardianJWre'Diies Edward Gildj'r, propiietor of tiie Emporium,.,"! pay ar : ; any.!othc? store." Then comes the last agonised aji'.eal (v tin.' 'iirl~\ViiU v iriy dociiie.i to ' iiiirV'V for another's crime. '.'But you . don',{. pay them r e'nou£h to live on. :Ytn''t yen do something about it." The ".yllcwitig acts take plae'e''after a lapse of ''ouf- years and are all work-ed round th > revenge sworn by Mary Turner In -'Cite- fir'sr act' cf lite' play. "Within the Law-r Vf by s|iWaT ? arran|e'mbnt with y._C.-Wi4ii*fH i -'LH.,-\\l!i be staged at ;he Town Hall, Taihape, en Easter y-.iurday for ens'; night only, "The Rosary" being presented on Easter 'Monday ni'gh't for tlVri last night, of the season; The box plan, is at Finch's Baaaar, where seats may be reserved without extra change'. NICHOLL'S PICTURES. .' 'SIXTY YEARS QUEEN.' '

Thursday, Friday and Saturday night's'" colossal attraction '.jat the Three Stars Wi Theatre is "Sixty i Queen," which reproduces in '7oooft'"' it animated, pictures,..notable histori;:':i] and domestic events connected with the record reign and life of Queen Victoria. The voluminous incidents disclosed in the picture have been prepared in strictly accurate form vith the assistance of the Imperial and different State Governments of the Empire. Th-_> "Sydney Sun" said &f;iU. "To attempt to portray on b-iograph fllw-g -the growth- of 'Greater Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria reads like -the dream of a lunatic. Yet the picture presented last night has done this with a fine measure of historical success * and with equal mea'mre of success in the production cf a' picture entertainment which is full of human interest and contains a great series of vivid and spectacular dramatic.effects. -The-film runs on for ov|# two hours through jßUck, a hewijderirif (Jan but take pause here and there to notepiitticnlarly ,aii-incidfent r cf scene fcf rare arresting interest. Great reviews, gqr-. gecus. -services- in the C'atliedra l .;';depaV Mjre_pf, r tji'QO})s-,fci- war, theremnantg of gallant brigades, and receiving -decoratiorfs at The Queb'uV hands, a .wild sight in; -Crimean trenches, arid the long Hst,9f;«&lhar notablb events-that'could "stretch the leihth- of; •• catalogue." Mr Barrie Marcliel, an •dacutichist cf special ability and 'a raconteur...Ayith a delightful .-eusecf humour wilj describe the; incidents as the film unfolds. . . ,•