ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9168, 17 March 1910, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HAYWARD'S PICTURES

There was an excellent attendance at the Opera House last night for the new picture programme. It was again composed almost entirely of comics and dramatics, but these were of good quality. The* star film was "The Stolen Favourite," a racing yarn with heaps of excitement in it. TtVo wicked men steal the favourite on the night before the race. They are watched from a dog kennel by the faithful stable boy, who follows them, and when their eyes are turned away for a moment he grabs the favourite and gallops away. The villians go in pursuit in a motor car, and a hot and exciting race results. The boy gets his mount back just in time to win the race, and everything ends happily. The comics were a feature of last _ night's show. They were funny in the extreme—the deepest depths of French absurdity being reached in one or two of them—especially in "The Man who Swallowed the Sponge." That unfortunate develops an amazing thirst after his unusual meal, and a couple of hampers of wine disappear with startling rapidity. The end of the film is decidedly French. Another very laughable affair was the return of a householder to his home while the landlord is having a few "trifling" repairs executed. All the other films were very fair, a clever _ illusion study being not the least interesting.