ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4155, 4 February 1916, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

WORLD’S PICTURES

'‘Braga’s Double” is the first episide in a six-series feature entitled “The Adventures of Dominica,” commencing at the World’s Pictures this afternoon and evening. This is a new departure by the Essanay Go., and serves to introduce several new screen artists. Mr Sheldon Lewis, who has made a big name as a tragedian, is cast in the dual roles of Senor Emilio Braga and his double Lemuel Taylor. The character of Dominica Meduna is sustained throughout the series by Nell Craig, whose work as a comedienne has always been popular. In the role of Gaston Legrand, Ernest Maupain finds plenty of scope for his wonderful character work. Frank Frank Dayton is well cast as Fernand. Legrand’s assistant. Episode No.- 1 shows Dominica Meduna, tho beautiful and unusual heroine of a series of startling adventures. She lia s her own code of morals, elastic as to the property rights of others, but rigid as to her own personal conduct. Emilio Braga is a saturnine-faced Argentino, criminal by instinct, training, and 'desire. He sends Dominica, his companion and assistant, to find a double of himself, so that he may prove an alibi when he wreaks vengeance on his official enemy, Legrand, who is as unscrupulous as Braga, being a blackmailer. Braga fails in liis plans to kill Legrand, but Dominica mis Die necessary double in Lemuel Taylor. Serious complications set in for both Braga and Taylor, the latter being mistaken for Braga in a cafe and a rough and tumble fight gives him opportunity to show what he can do. Dominica takes a fancy to Taylor, which arouses Braga’s jealousy and more trouble ensues. Another star feature in the programme to-day is King Baggot, the man of many characters, and Jane Gail in a comedy entitled “Fifty-Fifty.” Baggot as Briggs, the man who couldn’t do right, and Miss Gail, a s the woman who wanted to bury Briggs, cfeate unbounded laughter.