ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10115, 24 October 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“Tl‘lE‘ IRF E3ISTIBLE3.” OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT, A very large attendance is anticipated at the Opera House to-night for the production’ of the “Irresistible".” entertainment. The eoMumc- are stated to be (exceedingly pretty, and the stage sotting .artistic, while the musical' numbers are tuneful and catchy, itaiatv dances, add humoroUs items' are glso incluJed in the programme. and the- probfc&tv ate in aid of the Childrens Horne. PALACE. LAST NIGHT OF VAUDEVILLE. The vaudeville “act*” introduced into <he picture programme at the Palace are much appreciated! Tilton and West, singing and patter comedians, are very good in-P-tPr-p. pint singing is nicely blended and their “patter” quick and clever. George D’Alma on a banjo is a revelation —he can almost make it talk. Idnight will bo the last opportunity ol hearing these artists. Mary Miles M inter. m "The Gentle Intruder,” has a lovable part nd acts with rare charm and naturalness. The story is a relief and a change from the heavy drama. The whole entertainment it good. ROSY. ETHEL CLAYTON. . Although . the heroine of “The Stolen Paradise” knew that her husband was having a love affair with another woman Hie still loved him, and when his life is threatened by the furious husband, she rushes to his studio and is .found fbeie taking tea, in perfectly proper fashion. Her "husband's punishment is swift and sure, however. This picture with “The Iron Claw” is drawing big houses at the Rosy. “BATTLE OF THE ANCRE.”

Thu first of the British official war films, which arc being s'oiit out to the Nmv Zealand Government, will be screened at- the Opera House on throe evenings, and for TW o matinees, this week, commencing on Thursday at. 3. The Government has eu-loff-d into an arrangement with the v Mi;.A. to display the picture throughout the Dominion for "tho benefit of our soldifcrs, through several of iho wl 1-organ-jsod channels. The subject, ot the picture, which is 8000 ft hi lengtn, i.s “the Battle of the Aiicrc,” which took place m September of last year, and by no means iho least interesting feature in it is the section which illustrate for the first time the advance of the tanks. Ihe futuiis. Ktylo of decoration they adopt as a meafiiiw of disguise tnoni «*i curious likenejS to Home antediluvian monster. 'lhis accentuated by their shape and crawling, heaving and rolling like an numouse caterpillar on a toboggan side. The right of a fault returning from a little stroll over barbed wire entanglements, through which ir has broken as through cobwebs, and lumbering down what was once a. milage street, followed by a crowd of cheering troops, is one to raise laughter amongst any who are not the object of its unwelcome attentions. The cheery note is struck all through the pictures, especially m the Australian section, wherein even wounded men, being carried back from No Man s Land after Poneres, wave a weak arm of "■reeting to the camera. The whole picture represent.; the most comprehensive, reliable. and realistic record of the. war that lias yet appeared in this country, and lor that "reason alone crowded houses should be assured. Aircraft figure prominently; and t}m watehm- of the .screen in effect looks down from a height of more than two upon it broad vision ot tho battlefield. St? ais can be reserved at Andrew MUIaE-i