ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 2 November 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KOSY. "BAUETT-K.' One of the nlosi sensational successes of s■■lV, m stardom, Peggy llyland, i- son) in "Babetto." tin- Greater Vita-graph drama <!-,wui'ji,' at ti't Kosy. The story, r. really "different." It 1 - central incident is tlio mai> riago nf » beautiful French pivl to a handsome siranger whom slio believed to be a great artist. Ik' ii-aiJv I: ••■li artist liV instinct, but by choice |ii. 'is one ol Ihe eleveresl thieves in all France, lie makes a resolute stand after hi-- marriage, ami duo hot succumb to the KtaVr wa.\ 'until hi., Babetto falls ill. Then lie sits tin' mo'nev in the old way, and very •■o.Mi the police are on hi.- ir.v.-k. His real trouble is to keep' the truth from his innocent wife, and this he manages lo do. A dramatic turn of fate conns to Ins aid, ami the end of his dory i- full of rairpriso. 'lhe -i "lies are laid in Norninnby and the artist quarter of Paris, and are 'full of genuine totielu- of Bolieniianism. The Vitagraplf studio aiti-.t, too, ha., introduced j-ome new ami clover interion lighting effects, and ihe while production i, a eivfiit lo the company. The Secret of ihe Submarine is most satisfying, mul the other pictures sticcned are equally PA LACK. WRITER. SINGER. DAN< KR. AND NOW \ MOTION I'D 'I II! F, STAR. Mmp. IVirova, dar of '"Hie Soul of a Magdalen." the. liv< part Metro Popular I'lavs and Players piodttction written b\ 1... l.'ii-s"'- Ilii ■•'-li ami dii-1 ted b\ BurfortL. King, has had a brilliant career. Metro wonderplavs in which the gifted woman has appeared include "Extravagance, ihe Black Butterfly," "the Eternal Question," "Budge's Burned.'' and "My Madonna." Mm,. Petrova received her education in London, England, her family having removed to that eiiv from Warsaw, Poland, while she was till a child. Warsaw was her birthplace, her mother being Polish and Ikt father' English. Prior In her screen ex perieuec with Metro Pictures Corporation, Mme. Petrova achieved success in two inv port an I dramatic productions, "Pantbea" and "The Revolt," demonstrating Mill furiher her remarkable versatility. The star has made a number of phonograph records of poems and recitations written by herself; She i- one of the busiest as well as one of iho ablest woman working before lite camera. The oilier pictures shown were all lirst-class. EVERYBODY'S, "REINCARNATION.'' This strange belief is .: vital part of the ry,-r(t of the siren heroine of "The Dark Road" A breath-taking moment occurs m the final -cue of this;.]K>wcrftil play when the clanger liung by the half-crazed uusband pierces ' the painted figure of Lleopatra hanging in the infamous wife's apartment:-. \s the dagger pierces the breast of the Egyptian queen her modern prototype tails dead This' vampire picture is startling all through. The drosses worn by Dorothy D-jltoii are wonderful creations of the iurnishings, and the same, can be said of the. furnishings in her den Th° Dark Road is ~ better Him of its kind man _ tne Won Woman." and will bo shown again to-night and to-morrow night. \F\V ZEALAND NURSES' MEMORIAL " ' FUND. On November 6 n concert will,bo given (0 : ,i,| ,l„. above fund. Originally, it was intended to hold the concert on ihe 23rd October last, being the anniversary oi ,|,e sinking of ihe Marquette, bill it was romK | impossible to do so. Doubtless all w Ho can will support Ihe local commitloo's eiforl to iiugmenl the fund oi so laudable an object. Patrons are pro „,;,,.,! „ ,-,.,,0 treat, ihe commiltec having „,„„. to much trouble to get Hie support Cf some of the great talent of the capital filv I3v ihe kmd permission ol he U.t . ihe Auajnini Camp, the Camp Orchestra will render musical items, ami individual „„.„,!„.,, of ihe orchestra have also promised their assistance.