ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1916, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

I. EGMONT PICTURES. "Her Big Scoop" is the title of the piece de resistance to be shown on the ccast by the Egmont .Pictures this week. Sent to write up Mrs. Montague Bulger's ball, Fanny Stone, a society. reporter on the Eagle, is treated very khabbily. Fanny meets Bert Bailey, who has just started a new paper called The Era, and they plan revenge. They catch Mrs. Bulger in the conservatory with'a longhaired poet, and take a snapshot of them, which interesting picture Fanny publishes in the Eagle with her account of the ball. Mrs. Bulger is furious and demands Fanny's dismissal. Fanny is discharged, and while lying on her bed that night, crying, she overhears two men who occupy the room next to her, planning a bank robbery. She "shadows" them, and assured of a big "scoop," offers to sell it to several of the big newspapers, but they are sceptical:, and finally he takes it to Bert. He agrees to take her "scoop." Bert then goes to his friend, Detective Kelly, and puts the story before him. They tell Mr. Jamieson, the manager of the bank, and on the night when the robbery is to take place, Kelly, Bert and Fanny are all 'put in the strong-room, so as to be in at the death, as Bert puts it. The robbers are admitted by the care-taker, and are captured after a struggle, in which Fanny saves Bert's life. Next morning the New Era is out with extras telling of the capturo of ,the robbers; the circulation trebles in a single day. Jamieson is ho delighted with what Fanny and Bert have done, he advance? capital to publish the New Era on a larger scale. As for Fanny and Bert, they decide to become, partners in the newspaper, and partners for life as well. There are other interesting items in the programme, which is published in another column.