ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9221, 25 May 1910, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES

There was again a good house to see the last of the 1.-P- programme made so romarkab e by the inclusion i +-iirx "AV ir m the blood film and ?L grent bWW ?«.•» P?*- * change is promised for to-night, and mom r the »tar funis are said to-be some "really fine dramatics. "The Power of the Press" has made a reputation in other centres. It concern? the doings of a young editor in of- the more lawless parts of America, and is said to be a "thriller" n o mean order. Another Yankee tabloid melodrama .belongs to that popular class which finds its motive jn the cowboy country. It is called "The Pet of the Big Horn Ranche." Of the ecenics a fine sample is to be shown of America's most majestic country in "The Gorges of the Andes." This should bo a picture well worth seeing.

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. Hayward's will make their usual change of programme to-night, when the bright particular attraction will be "A Day with the Boy Scouts, which is sure to prove a draw. In the nick of Time," and another set of Zoo pictures. Each of the three mentioned are full of interest, particularly the Scout film, whilst an attractive set will be completed by some exceedingly good scenics, comics and dramatic pictures. The management is completing details for a ladies' beauty competition, which will be conducted on similar lines to the just concluded and successful children's competition, and is sure to piovoke a lot of general interest.