ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10112, 20 October 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Good picture programmes are being Kubnitted at the Kosv and Palace this weekend, Charlie Chaplin proving* a great draw. EVERYBODY'S. NANCE O'NEIL "Tho Flames of Johnniss" is the title .-•t tho feature at Everybody's to-night, with such art artist as N'inco O'Noil ia the lead, idd with a good storv to work on. .sometliing special can'be looked for. 'Togo' the Ring,"' and uji Australian Gazette will also be shown. "THE IRRESISTIBLES." Quito a lot of curiosity has been exhibited by the public in the entertainment of "The Irresistible.'-;," which is to take places at tut Upet-d House on Wednesday next. Nothing .'•'cms to be known of those performers ex •x-pt, that they propose to provide a very '••right entertainment ami to wearsome do Si-ThtfuHv original addresses. Further detail; will be awaited by the public with im infest. Jn the meantime tho box plan is tilli.li!! rapidly, "BATTLE OF THE ANCTtE," The plan adopted by die British GovernTiont or securiniV first claw ollioia.l picture records of characteristic aspects and incidents of the great war and distributing them Lo the Governments of tho Overseas _Dominions is obviously a wise i'rul far-seeing pot iov. The object is to make people—especially those in lands far removed from the scenes of actual fighting—realise vividly and accurately what present day warfare means and just'what ,it is. that our soldiers an doing and enduring in their sxrong determination that liberty and justice -hall not o»rkh from the earth. Tee first ol these pictures' to reach New Zealand is about to 1)0 shown here tor three nights and two matinees at, the Opera House, commencing on rhursdav. It illustrates the battle ot the •\iicre, which was fought exactly u year ago. One of its most dramatic incidents is Hit advance of the tanks, that new and mys, terious tenor which contributed so greatly to the. victorv, but the whole series oi hlrm r, packed with interest, and intormatioii which in would be. impocsiblo to describe or conve.v to anyone who has not With commendable enterprise the i .i1.0.A. has entered into an arrangement with the Qovermnent to undertake the display ol the picture and to see that, all the. profit: resulting are expended, under tho director of the Minister for Internal Allans loi tho benefit of our soldiers either at Horn or abroad! The plan will open at Andrew Millar's next Tuesday.