ENTERTAINMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2999, 22 July 1916, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A MILITARY DISPLAY. During the last lew weeks the officers and men of the J Battery have been practising most assiduously in preparation for their Military Display and Camp Fire Concert to be given in the Feilding Drill Hall next Wednesday. They have compiled a programme second to none that has been presented in Feilding. Coming from a military organisation, it is only natural that a military display forms tho chief part of tbe performance, and the Battery i,s fortunate in so far that their 15-pounder guns arc especially adaptable for spectacular work. But the musical side has, not altogether been neglected, and tho Camp Fire Concert will consist of some very original items. Stirring choruses are to be interspersed with monologues and humorous items, aud the performance will conclude' with a Maori haka of the pakeha type. The box plan and day sales of tickets are now open at Copeland's, As tickets are selling rapidly, intending patrons are advised to book their seats early. RIOTOUS FUN AT THE LYCEUM. "Tillies Punctured Romance," the longest farcical comedy yet produced in Feilding—6ooo feet *of it— was screened at the Lyceum last night before a .large crowd, of spectators who on,;oyed themselves to the top of their bent. And well they might, for the full force of the Keystone Co. is involved in the myriad scenes revolving round Charlie Chaplin (the hero-vil-lain of the piece), Marie Dreissler (the heavyweight champion comedienne of America", who plays the innocent young thing from the country), and Mabel Normand (the other woman in this riotously funny skit upon the Eternal Triangle). This monster photoplay has a weak and very unpromising opening, but, there is a tremendous amount of knockabout business throughout the six parts—some of it low comedy that verges upon and just-escapes vulgarity. But there is no denying that the play in its third section-achieves its purposes. "Begone, dull care!" is its motto, and Care doesn't get a look in. There is some excellent dancing in several or the Society scenes. The final part, which brings in the famous Keystone police and water police, with an extravagantly funny rescue of Tillie from the ocean, is crammed full of fun that made beholders rock m their seats, roaring and shouting in laughter without" restraint. It. is the greatest finish ever screened here, and the echo of it in Feilding to-day should attract a bumper house tonight. There were only three supporting pictures: a drama of a strike in an iron foundry, a scenic from Tunis, and nature studies of wild deer and boars. Mr. Daley played excellently a most enjoyable nnd well-se-lected programme of music.