ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9553, 3 July 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

Quality and variety aro tho keynotes of to-night's change of programme' at tho Opera House. Every picture to bo screened is new to Palmcrston, and: will ' undoubtedly create unusual interest. 'lncluded is an educational film entitled "Baby-rearing in Paris." The nursery home to bo depicted has been established to guide Parisian 'parents in tho important matter' of caring properly for their children. Mothers should not miss tho opportunity of learning a wrinkle or two from this picture pourtrayal. A fine_Vitagraph fairy tale entitled "Water Lilies,' will appeal to young and old alike. Tho story is a pleasing ono and wrapped up in that wealth of + fairies aro supposed to f» ut **H£ hn also well represented in Jig et liuni "Count Calvert's crime." "Aviation Week in Rheins" is the latest in aerial feats, "Picturesque Sardinia. fiillerVpictures.

TO-NIGHT'S BUDGET. A really splendid and diversified progrime will be presented by Messrs.John Fuller and Sons to-night. Part 11. or "EsWhoattho Zoo" takes theaudienco to the LLon Zoological Gardens to v,ew innumerable curiosities not likely to 00 seen in this country by tho present generation. Tho subjects are vividly pourtrajed, and interest never flags for a moment while tho film is being shown, llio Broken'(W'-this picture created a great draw when being shown through om circuit, "Roland the Granadier is a Naponetonic drama of great force, tho actin* and attention to detail being wmderful, and the great staging effect should be seen to be realised. Tho concluding picture is extremely funny, which gives a side-splitting viow of the antics of Uur Now Cook." ■

A well-known Homo judge, wno was a cuest at an Actors' Cricket Club dinner, in London, said ho did not like actors, because they treated him worse than any other branch of the public. He y.ent to sec them perhaps a hundred tunes a year. But they never came to see mm. Ho himself ran several shows a year, in all of which he played tho principal part Ho had had before him. at tho Uld Bailey, clergymen, lawyers, stockurokors. merchants arid others, but never during tho ten years that ho had been at tho Old Bailey had ho had an actor in tho docks.