AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1920, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

LITTLE MARIE OSBORNE. The mid-week change of programme at the Paramount Theatre this evening will include the wonderful child actreßß Marie Osborne in one of her greatest successes entitled "Dolly's Vacation." Good" comedy drama pictures featuring child pr.ncipals are always a big success, and this picture will prove no exception to the rule, the aet.ng being perfect. The story, wh.ch is centred round a halo of romance, concerns chiefly the impish pranks committed by our little heroine, who causes no end of fun and consternation. Another chapter of the renowned serial "The Fighting Trail" will be shown, and is sure to find its usual many followers. A good comedy "Caning the Cannibal" and other supports will be shown. "A LADY'S NAME." Constance Talmadge is feature!! in "A Lady's Name" at the Cosy tonight. Mabel Vere is a young and popular writer. She shares a pretty little flat w.th Maud Bray, a suffragette of determined character. Mabel is engaged to be married to Gerald Wantage, but she has become aware of gFrowing dissatisfaction with her somewhat priggish fiance. However, she tries to ignore this discontent, working off her unrest in her own original ways. One of her "ways" itto advertise for a husband. She hopes to obtain good copy from the- pplicants, and she invites three of them to call. Adams, a" butler, arrives, in whom Mabel sees prospects for a good story. She accepts his n/itifkra to tea for the following afternoon at the house where ho works, telling her thai his master will be out. Noel Corcoran is the third applicant, to whom Mabel does not show the interest that she feels in him. The next day she keeps her engagement for tea, only to find that the butler workß at Noel Corcoran's house. He inforaa her that her fiance is making bets with the men at the club that she will not answer any more letters in reply ,to her ad. Mabel decides to punish him, bo she answers two of the newly arrived, lurid letters. Wantage discovers it and after a quarrel they brWk their engagement. When Noel learns of the broken engagement he calls and succeeds in impressing Mabel with the fact that he is the right man for her. "Stingaree" will be continued in another good chapter. Several good comedy and topical subjects are to be shown in support. A matinee will be held at 2.30 this afterno»n. l . "THE LUCK OF THE NAVY." At the Opera House on Monday evening the Allan Wilkie Dramatic Company will introduce the great naval drama "The Luck of the Navy," which is fresh from an extraordinary run of two years in London. The plot has to do with the machinations of a nest of Him spies in England. The Kaiser's secret agents scheme to take a secret code from the commander of a British submarine, and plan to carry off the commander by aeroplane to Germany. The action of the piece is thrilling throughout. The part of the hero w.ll be supported by Mr Allan Wilkie, and Miss Frediswyde Hunter-Watts will appear as his fiancee. ."THE ROTTERS." "The Rotters," a comedy which is reputed to be the most laughable witnessed for several years, and which achieved tremendous success in London, wJI bo presented by the company on Tuesday evening. There is an adroitness in the plot and a series 4i immensely amusing situations with smartly written dialogues whJch ensure the exceptional popularity of the piece. Interest circles around a family which is supposed to be eminently respectable, and it is the unexpected behaviour of the members of the household which creates cause for unrestricted hilarity. Mr Allan W'ijiie will play the part of the chauffeur who captivates the female members of the household. Miss Frediswyde Hunter-Watts will impersonate the elder daughter, and Mr Edward Landor will figure as her father.