ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1915, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE CIIAT'EROX." It' you arc nervous, sensitive* as to ! your |u>silion, or, to say the least, con- i sidcrato towards tlie lady you ask to dine with you. always secure a vhapcron. Milan ( Itester is engaged to a young lady named Doris Maying but. they have agreed not to see one another for a j year, in order to put a test to their love. Incidentally this period will give i Hilary' time to geit a better position. The lion. Algy is engaged to a fascin- * tiling young ac<b'ess, Rosamond GayI tliorne, and while .she is endeavoring to | persuade a gay old M. I'., Christopher Pottinger, to give her "boy" a sccretarv- [ ship, Algy keeps out of sight. On this particular evening Pottinger brings Roj sie to the Restaurant Royal. Algy goes • oil' to the opera, and Hilary promises to I follow, lie, then learns that Pottinger wishes for the services of the chaperon, and he is introduced accordingly, much pleased to find ti.at he is to pose as thu huKlbaiul o/f sucli a sweet young thing as Rotiie. lie does not know, of course, that she is engaged to Algy. The supper is ordered—'hy Hilary! Pottinger I finds to his great annoyance that the chaperon is getting too friendly with Rosie, and he is being left out in the 1 cold. Suddenly Sir*. Pottinger, with Admiral Peter Maxwell, and his sister, Harriet Maxwell, appear on the scene, j and are surprised to find Mr. Pottinger. When he recovers from the shock, Pottinger exiplains that he is dining with ■ "Mr. anl Mrs. Jones," influential con- ; stituenils. The second stage of the ensuing complications is provocative of • more laughter than is contained in all ! the three acts of any other farce comedy. The "Glad Eye" Company play I "The Chaperon" at the Theatre Royal, Mow Plymouth, on Thursday, Jnne "24. ! The liox plan is at Collier's. v On Wednesday. .Tune 211, tlie company " visit Inglewood with "The Glad Eye." 1 UMPIRE THEATRE. A story, the like of which has been . told by various fiction writers since the [ war began, about the machinations of German spies, is related by the kincma ' machine at the Empire Theatre just now. The title of the story is "On His . Majesty's Service." Some of the prinei- • pal actions in the thrilling drama are . in fact "o.n llis Majesty's service," but i the others most distinctly are not. Thesa | latter are "German spies, men who have p waxed rich and. fat in England as merI chants, but who are all the time full of i hatred- for the English. In their office i they employed a typiste, a lady who . happened to be in the pay of the English ; secret service. But all this the Germans i knew, and before they set about destroy- , ing other things they made, as tiny . thought, quite sure of the typiste. When ; the war broke out the British troops i , were mobilised with great rapidity, and I for a day or so there were few trains ,~n I certain lines that did not carry soldiers. On destroying a bridge, and thereby .wrecking a train and sending to their death a few hundred soldiers, these Germans had set their hearts. They bound the typiste and drugged her, and left a benign looking old servant to keep guard over her with a most businesslike revolver. The sentry was decoyed from his post at the bridge by the do- ' spicable trick of ail okl woman, who threw a doll into the river and screamed that it was her child. Of course the soldier could not resist the appeal, and he discovered his mistake too late While he was away the Germans had placed their bomb sure enough. Then the English secret service men Xjcgmi to earn J I their pay. They found out about tiu; drugged and bound typiste and her, and they found out about the bomb and destroyed that. While all this was ha opening the Germans had a crowded half-hour or so, out of which no one escaped alive. In lighter vein is a Keystone comedy called "Gentlemen of Xerve." The "gentleman" most in evidence is Charles Chaplin. As a matter of course, and quite properly, as he was ' having a day out, he had Mabel " , ' maud with him. The film h- - ; |W * plot in it than an up-te " 110 the gentlemen did --<iiitu revile, but nerve. It is » "1""*' jnst a little "The 01!' •* '"li'y amusing sketch, drame ' r ''rain" is a sentimental I(i .. by tlie lieiiuty Co. The reinaiu- _»•!' of tile, programme includes industri- | al, topieals, liower study, and an Interesting Jilin, "Sponges."