ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 292, 19 May 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

" '•WHO'S" THE LADY*" To-morrow night the popular "Glad Eye" Company will at the Theatre Loyal present "Who's the Lady'!" which, was written of by tile Adelaide Herald as ' piouifnle. In that word there is only 1 a partial description of "Who's the { Lady;" The remainder of the description mnv be summed up in two words.- | ■irresistibly funny." "Who's the Lady?" ' is mostly Ethel Dane, for in this comedy her powers are given full scope. ] "Who's the Lady?" is from the French j comedy, ".Madame la Prcsideiife," by j .MM. llcnicruin and Verber. Briefly, flic ] theme is this: Augustiou Trieointe, a ] paragon, and president of the Court of J Gvay, is, during the absence of his wife, | made the subject of a trick by three of his fellow magistrates. Gobette, an actress, who is playing the lead in "The j Duchess' Carter," is induced to take up her lodging under his roof, and she enters into the spirit of the thing so far as to give him lessons in flirting. The spectacle of the unwilling abandonment of the highly respectable lawyer to his "fate'' is providing excellent comedy when the Minister for Justii<e arrives, and in Ids general dilemma the president introduces Gobette as his wife; to her the .Minister falls a victim, and in order to see more of her decides to promote Trieointe to a position nearer Paris. So in Paris the authors place the. next scene, where the Minister confides in his secretary that he can love only one woman, and that woman is she I whom he believes to be Madame TriI eointe! The fun becomes fast and furious. The real Madame Trieointe, who | is on a visit to Paris, approaches the ' Minister to secure advancement for her husband. The Minister mistakes Tier identity for that of a polisher of brasswork, and thence on situations follow situations, all apparently resulting in such intensely funny complications that it is only at the finish the authors cleverly extricate and exculpate their well-sk-etched characters. The box plan is at Collier's.

THE UMPIRE THEATRE. ' A stirring social .ami military drama, dealing with the present crisis, and called "The Fringe of War," was presented '' at the .Empire Theatre last night, and . created a deep impression. The story ; commences in an English setting before the war, in the residence of General Marlowe, who has invented a wonderful gun. At his house a German diplomatic ( officer tries to secure the plan, but is frustrated by the beatiful sister of the» General's wife, an American girl, who I is engaged to an English captain. The ' girl, in order to prevent the German getting the plan and in order to s:iv> her sister, has to visit the former's room, and is found by her lover, who, not knowing the circumstance*, breaks the engagement and leaves the lrjr.se. The three come together later on a French battlefield, where the German methods of cruelty are siiown. In an intensely dramatic scent! the lovers are reunited, and the picture ends happily. The film is full of tense dramatic scenes, and the different battle pictures show in it realistic manner the horrors of war. "The Fringe-of War" is easily the best war drama that has yet been shown. The oilier films are of a good character,

and include some of the latest war scenes in France. A delightful eomedvdrama, "Wilful Peggy," features little Mary Pickfurd, whose acting keeps the audience in a pleasant humor. "The Folly of Ann" is also a clever and entertaining drama, with a pleasant love story, while "The Honeymooners," Vitagraph's latest comedy, shows John Bunny intruding on the bliss of a new-ly-married couple in a very _ laughable way. The departure of the Maori troops is shown in another excellent iilm.