ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 63, 1 August 1912, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"TOM M'TLER." "Tom Butler" a rattling detective story, fall of 11 -i t incidents .and exciting sii'iriiions, vou released at the Empire Theatre last ni,ht, and at once found pronounced favor with the large audience present. The piece is cleverly acted, and shows some smart things in the way of disguises. Miss Hampton, a rising young actress, is busy rehearsing for a new part she is to create. She receives a note which agitates her considerably. It is to the effect that Tom Butler, her husband, whom she was instrumental in sending to prison, has escaped and intends having revenge on her. In her dressing room she is interviewed by young Villars, a journalist, who falls in love with her. Butler makes an unsuccessful attempt on her life and follows this up with mysterious warnings. Her fears drive her nearly distracted. She gets out of bed, and with a blind hope of escaping climbs through the window and falls on t-o the pavement below. Picked up unconscious, she is carried to a well-known sculptor's near by, and receives attention. A wealth/ amateur calls to inspect some of tie statutary. The visitor (who in reality is Tom Butler in disguise) forgets his ci'iie, and returns later on for it. When he leaves the premises again he does so in company with Miss Hampton, whom he has kidnapped. Following a clue the police pursue, and in a wood find the unfortunate actress hanging suspended by her hands. Butler and his accomplice escape. Rescued once more, Miss Hampton is amongst her friends. By dint of clever cunning the girl is again kidnapped, and is rescued at the eleventh hour after having been bricked up in a secret niche. Tom Butler i 9 accidentally killed through jumping out of a window on to the pavement below. Tin supporting films in the new programme are a fine and diversified collection. This evening in addition to "Tom BulJti,'' a spectacular and thrilling dramatic production will be screened in the shaiK' of ''The Midnight Wedding."

'•MRS. McSWEENEY." "Mrs. McSweeney" is coming to New Plymouth on Monday next, with Miss Maggie Moore playing "Bridget McSweeney," and all the laughs that it is possible to crowd into one play. It is said that "Mrs. McSweeney" is the champagne big laugh play. It is such a rollicking, happy, cheery, farcical comedy that it has already made for itself the name of the funniest Australian humorous play ever staged. Your fancy only needs to picture Miss Magsjie Moore portraying the buxom, jolly Irishwoman, full of the fun of the land of the Shamrock and making every point a telling one and every laugh a side-splitter. Booking is already well ahead, so if you want to laugh a lot get your seat at once. The box plan is on view at Collier's.