ENTERTAINMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"HOME, SWEET HOME" AT THF

LYCEUM

"'Mid pleasures and palaces, though you may roam, Be it ever so bumble,'there's no place like home." This famous and popular song of an American exile would seem to be a most difficult theme upon which to work out scenarios for a photo-play. Yet it has been done very successfully, as was proved in the screening at the Lyceum Theatre last night. It is really' a great moral play—a play with a purpose, that purpose being to show that in the hour of temptation an echo of the old song brings out the best in human nature. In the Griffith version of "Home"—which runs into 6000 ft of beautiful, almost perfect photography, with unusual and artistic dissolving effects —there 'are, besides the pathetic and realistic record of John Howard Payne's career along the downward path, three episodes and a transformation showing the resurrection of Paynt. from tlie deepest hell to the seventh heaven. In .the first episode, there is the merry Wild West story ol Apple Pie Mary; in the second, tho sensational and tragic working out of the, hatred of two brothers.; and in the third, the clubman's wife, is saved by hearing the familiar strains at a critical moment. Incidental to the screening of the film was the singing of "Home, Sweet Home," by Miss Peggie Smart, whose sweet voice was suited to the ballad. The outstanding feature of the evening's entertainment, was the musical programme contributed by Mrs Wolleiman at the pianoforte, her playing be.ing delightful, and she was assisted by Mr Hurdle (violin) and Mr Stokoe ('cello), with' an ellcetive variation on the accordeon by Mr Win. Wilkinson. Bosides the star film, there were a Gaumont War Graphic and an Edison comedy, "Her Husband's Burglar."* The programme, with the full "nnisicHl accompanifnent, will be repeated for tin: last time to-night. . . I'LOK-ENCE YOUNG COMPANY. At. tho Drill Hall, Feilding, on Wednesday evening next, Miss Flor-ence-Young, Australia's most popular lyric. actress, will, supported by her own picked company, appear Ij i the charming musical play, "The Climax,' said by the Sydney Morning Herald to be "a bright comedy, with just those elements that arc calculated to enlist in its favour the whole-hearted support of cultured men and women." Miss Young's successes in all the prv->----eipal Williamson productions of recent, years arc said to be totally eclipsed by her fine work in "The Climax," and when one recalls her parts in "Tho Dollar Princess," "Merry Widow," "Chocolate Soldier." ''Waltz Dream," and a score of other successes, this is praiso indeed. Miss Young is -supported by other artists from the Royal Comic Opera Company, notably Messrs Reginald Roberts,' Claude Bantock, and Kdinund Sherras, and all have some fine song numbers. Seats may be reserved at Rissett and Bissett's. "THE PROPERTY MAN." A great Keystone star comedy. " I he Property Man," which has made the world hold its sides iii laughter, will set Feilding off on Monday. Tho Keystone's "very fuiuiy man," Chas. Chaplin, sets out to make "The Property Man." the. greatest laughing eraKβ in the picture world. Tho -management of the Lyceum report that they have received no less than thirty letters enquiring when "The Property Man" is to visit- Feilding. There will bo three screenings—Monday night, and Tuesday afternoon fat 3.15, after school) and night. Seats may be booked at Bissett's on Monday morning.