ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 300, 28 May 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. Among other excellent films, the seventh story of "Dolly of the Dailies" is to be shown to-morrow. It is entitled "The End of the Umbrella." The Aqueduct Construction Company had been having a good deal of trouble with certain anarchistic elements, who, anxious to seize any cause of discontent t* further the bloody revolution they hoped for, opposed the building of the great pipe which would carry fresh water to' the crowded people of the great city. Finally after the company had been half worried to death by anonymous threats, a tremendous explosion killed a dozen workmen and wrecked the main section of the great work. Dolly Descond, in the city ollice of the newspaper, heard of tlie catastrophe and begged the editor to allow her to investigate it. He consented, and Dolly set out. As she wandered about the wrecked aqueduct she came upon a curious umbrella handle in among several pieces of a shattered bomb. She obtained a position as cashier in tlus dining-room of the little hotel near the works. She had the handle placed on a, new umbrella, put it in the stand, and. settled herself to watch. It wasn't an easy matter to devote her entire attention to the stand as she thought at first, for Grant, a young engineer at the works, fell madly in love with her. At last when she was on the point of giving up, a shifty-eyed individual picked up tlie umbrella, started to go out with it, and then, apparently remembering, looked at it, put it down and looked frightened. Dolly recognised him as "Nutty Jim." one of the lodgers of the hotel. That evening Dolly H'ent to his room to investigate. She had just unearthed several bombs when Nutty Jim came in and sprang at her. She fired at him, but missed. A bomb Was knocked oil' the table and exploded. Nutty Jim was kflled and Dolly severely injured. The boarders, terrified by the explosion, found Dolly more dead than alive, but the plucky girl's first request was to be carried to the telephone. She told her story to the editor and collapsed. .We leave her at the hospital with tlie anxious Grant at her side, delightedly reading her "scoop" in the Comet. THE TiIHATi.E ROYAL. At the Theatre Royal on Monday evening next the Feature Films Com■pai.y will present a remarkable film exposing in detail the methods employed by agents of the nefarious white slave traffic, in luring young girls to a life of misery and degradation. The film has been shown with great success in Australia and the Auckland district., and everywhere has been favorably commented on. Whilst dealing with a most delicate subject, nothing is shown to which exception can be taken, although a complete exposure is given, and the trials of a girl lured away are I'aitTifullv shown.