ENTERTAINMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2785, 7 August 1915, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"CALLED BACK" AT THE LYCEUM THfIATRE. Hugh Conway's brilliant novel, "Called Back," in picture form, could not but appeal to one and all. It was screened for' the first time at the' Lyceum last night, with great success. The film.follows the book closely, and contains every thrill and master The scene shifts from Italy, after the murder, and the downfall of Dr. Ceneri, to Siberia, and "holds the attention to the very last. The supporting pictures are interestingly varied, and make up.an exceptional programme, which will be screened for the last time to-night. 'For Sloiiday the star hit will bb Keystone's "Hushing the Scandal," featuring Syd. Chaplin. ."THE MAN WHO STAYED AT HOME." Few dramas, have made such a sensation as that created by "Tho Man Who Stayed at Home," to be presented in Feilding by J., O. Williamson/ Ltd., at the Drill Hall on.Monday, August 23. The play shows both skill and enterprise in, its treatment of the German spy problem. It is really a forcible and patriotic indictment of England's generous toleration towards her enemies—an. indictment couched in the subtleness' ot. drama and comedy. Tlie wireless installation up the chimney, the use of carrierpigeons, Germans in the confidential channels of the Defence Department, the' duplicity of plans showing trees for forts and flagstaffs i'or lighthouses —the whole paraphernalia of deceit is there. The authors have seized upon tivo highly significant features of the titanic struggle of the nations, and have weaved them into an intensely interesting and stirring story—the long-planned treachery of the Teutonic secret service agents (the serpent England has nursed in her bosom) and the sleeping heroism and astuteness of the traditional "Johnnie'l of the monocle order. In England and Australia tke production of "The Man Who .Stayed at Home" has had a remarkable stimulating effect on the recruiting movement. J. 0. Williamson have been very fortunate in being able to secure tho services of Miss Violet Paget, whose talented husband at the outbreak of the war disbanded his own organisation in order that lie might join his regiment. Tho "loading man" is Mr Frank Harvey (late of the Julius Knight Company), who gives a magnificent interpretation of Christopher Brent (the man who stayed at home). The east also -includes Misses Emma Temple. Florence -Gleeson, Dorothy dimming, Temple i'igott, and K. Browne, Messrs Leslie Victor, Austin Milroy. Kenneth Brampton, Arthur Cornell, and Charles Morse. A feature of the production will be the staging and dressing. The box plan opens at Bis-sett's-on Friday next.