ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8216, 13 August 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. ''Where is My Wandering^ Boy Tonight?" screened at the head of the new programme-shown at His Majesty's Theatre last evening, pleaded guilty to being what is known in poster phraseology, as a "feature" fiim. While it was a very fair type of dramatic subject, it did not come up to thesstarn r dard expected after reading the bills 1. The acting was good, but nothing out of the ordinary, and the staging was equally mediocre. Why the picture I should be "starred," was beyond the comprehension of most of the audience* The plot was woven round the song which gives the picture its namei Warren Dean, the hero, leaves his home because he has a preference for music over the study of law as required of him by his father. Before going, he composes a melody which he leaves behind him, and which is afterwards put to words by his mother. Warren finds that the path of the musical composer jis not all roses, but he eventually sei cures employment as .accompanist to a promising young girl singer. On the strength of their joint occupation, the two marry. J Unhappily the girl does not hold her job, and the two find themselves in considerably reduced circumstances. They are up against it with a. vengeance when Warren falls Jill, and is ordered to take a year's holiday. In order to restore her husband's health, the wife resorts to rather doubtful expedients, and when he comes back well the husband, in a fit of righteous indignation, spurns her; | and proceeds to go to the dogs rapidly. |He drinks himself -into prison. Meani while his father dies, and his mother has to earn a living as a street singer, , She sings under the window of the J wife, who hears the old tune, and takes! her in. Later the three come together/ and live happily ever after.. The "Pathe Gazette'■ was a very, interesting number, dealing almost entirely with^ war subjects. It showed the training of a motor-cycle corps, a French camp at the Dardanelles, fallen soldiers' funerals, May Day, in Eng-! land, and other interesting items. Other subjects were: " The Reindeer," a good Nature story: "The Girl on; the Trestle," nrid exciting drama; and "Suspi'-ious Characters" and "That Little Band of Gold," two amusing comics. The .samp programme will be screened again this evening.